Paul Furman wrote:
> 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.
You don't have to download ANY messages, just the message headers, and
some news servers don't charge for downloading headers. Giganews
doesn't, and they have 12GB/month for $12.99US. Very reliable, fast,
and great retention. I have no stake on any kind in Giganews, but I am
happy with their value. |