Hans-Peter Fischer wrote:
> Ben Bucksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> You have a point only if users are on dialups paid by time. (This user
>> group is constantly decreasing - it'd guess, by today, the majority of
>> users is permanently connected.)
>
> This may be true for the posters to this newsgroup, since most of them will
> probably be from the US, but I'm quite sure that the majority of users
> *worldwide* has a dial-up connection for which they pay by time.
Since I am living in Germany, which until recently had no flatrates at
all, I did include all of the world. But even Europe is coming now
(Flatrates become available and polular in the UK and Germany, at least).
Don't forget business users. Most of them are permanently connected.
> (Which also
> means that a news reader that doesn't support offline reading will be pretty
> useless for them. This is a feature that *really* matters - apart from
> stability and performance of course.)
With POP, you have offline reading, since you store msgs locally, not?
OK, doesn't work for news.
