On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:40:38 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > My mail is running around 35 messages per day. Is that a big volume ?
> How much is a "big" volune ? For awhile I was subscribed to three or four very active mailing lists besides this one and had five or six people who corresponded with me privately--so it was not unusual for me to have over two hundred messages to deal with daily. Many I did not read, but I skimmed and deleted. Unless you are very patient, that kind of volume on slow equipment with Arachne is next to impossible. The same slow equipment functioning as a terminal to log onto a shell could just fly through the same volume of material. Easy to use, too. With a shell account you don't have to set up and configure Pine, just use it. Why? Because it's running on the shell machine that you log onto and comes ready to use. But, it is difficult to find an ISP that offers shell access anymore. There are a number of free shell accounts available though and if I was running a heavier email volume again I would start using one again for sure. Having a shell account is also a very good way to learn something about Unix/Linux because you can get the lay of the land without having to install Linux and be your own system administrator. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
