Miles wrote:
> * Paul Furman wrote, On 6/29/2009 11:17:
>> Miles wrote:
>>> * Paul Furman wrote, On 6/29/2009 10:09:
>>>
>>>> I've been fine with the free motzarella.org service for about a
>>>> week. Funny though, when I tried reading this thread last night, I
>>>> had reached the daily limit:
>>>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
>>>> "The number of connections per day and per user has been limited to
>>>> 1200."
>>>> Which is fine really... if I reach that limit I should go out & play
>>>> in the sun for a while .
>>>>
>>> Perhaps you are downloading the msgs in their entirety, not simply
>>> the headers?
>>
>> Just headers and I actually read a fairly small percentage. There are
>> 4 photo groups I frequent (11 others I rarely visit but header counts
>> load) and I use a lot of filters to mark as read as well as marking
>> cross-posted threads ignored so a whole lot of headers... I kind of
>> doubt I actually viewed 1,200 messages yesterday though I guess it's
>> possible... I flip through them pretty quickly with hot keys in
>> thunderbird.
>
> Interesting, yesterday I registered with motzarella and opened 14 groups
> with 20,341 msgs. Opened perhaps 100 of those headers to ascertain
> importance and mark in red (Thunderbird coloring). Also had to change
> all from sort by ascending to descending, but don't believe that would
> be seen on their computers.
Good point. I must have actually opened 1,200 messages yesterday because
when I first set it up I had to download a zillion messages to get up to
date. |