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Topics of the day:
1. membership decline
2. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
3. No accmail digest in the past days
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:56:44 -0300
From: GB&A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: membership decline
At 09/07/1999 10:19:00, G.Boyd wrote:
>Good question, how does a total email only user find out anything?
When I begin on the net, three years ago, I was an total only mail user.
I accesed thru a gateway from a BBS of the National Library
of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At that time I could receive any number of mails, but I have a very little
quote to send mail "only one by week !! "
In the internet access section of that BBS they promote a copy of the
Dr. Bob Guide in spanish, V 6.0 from Ago96.
I downloaded it and in it I located the reference to accmail list
Now I have a mix of access. I have six hours by month and I can
use it to email or online.
For online access six hour is nothing, so I use only email methods
and my six hour are usually plenty enough.
With six hour on the net a month, I can download a lot of web pages,
by day, receive several mailing list, and also have time to other interesting
things that are forgoten or ignored by only online people (remailers, echoes,
gopher, fax, etc. etc.)
And the best is that the telephon bill don't go up.
Another feature is that I never loss my time waiting for a slow page to download.
All pages came by mail at the full speed of my modem, not at the net speed.
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I think the problem with accmail methods is that the most of "net people" like:
a) images and b) click and view.
What is the "point"? Is a Big Bussines.
The images take a lot of bytes but few important information, so:
1. Bussines for the page maker:
1.1 To make a photo and put it in a web page is more cheap and
simple that to thing a long and sustancial text.
1.2 Images usually has no copyrigh problems, text usually has they.
1.3 Images are more atractive for most of people, so for commercial
bages are best than text.
2. Bussines for tlecoms and/or harware and/or software makers:
2.1 To download big pages you need to pay for a best modem or
more telephon time (in many countrys we pay by minutes or seconds).
2.2 To see some pages with images, frames, java animation, etc. etc.
you will need the lastest browser version.
3. Bussines for hardware makers:
3.1 To run the lastest borwser version, you need a powerfull machine.
3.2 To save the images that you download you need more and more gigabytes.
3.3 You need more ram, more video memory more,......., more and more.
You can viw these from other point of view:
Why the bigers companys of software and hardware are
buying the bigest sites in the net ?
Because they are very related bussines and can make good feedback.
-- I do not say that this is good or bad, but sure that is a big bussines.
By all these, one can see that there are very big forces against accmail methods.
These do not mean that any deamond is against accmail methods,
only that accmail methods are in oposite way that market forces.
In any case, I like accmail methods.
Sorry, I gone some out of subject and too long.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 06:01:02 +0100
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:30:21 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No accmail digest in the past days
At 03:18 PM 7/12/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following:
>Since the 7th of July I'm not receiving the accmail digest anymore.
>Is there a problem?
We seem to run in cycles here. Another Italian user reported the same
thing from his domain. Nothing a matter with AOL, or this list.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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