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Kelly Troyer
Dyke Delta/13B/RD1C/EC2

-------------- Original message from Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>: --------------


> Uh.... there are some downsides, like 5-10 times the trouble for the 70%
> of the world that are stuck with dialup (including me). I've tried
> several forums like that & I find them so slow & frustrating to view
> that I never go back. I can see about 30 headers at a time with regular
> email & email list delivery. It's really frustrating to me if I have to
> go through multiple clicks each time I want to see another block of
> maybe 5 headers, wait for the page to load, then more clicks to see
> messages, wait for the page to load, then the screen shows 60-80%
> framing detail instead of 70-80% info with regular email.
>
> Am I the only one with these problems?
>
> With regular email & list servers, I only need to get online & click
> 'get messages' to get all the info I'm interested in, instead of having
> to navigate to 8 or 10 different web sites every day just to check on
> whether there has been a new post.
>
> If everyone wants to move to the new format I'll follow, but it won't be
> fun...
>
> Charlie
> bottom feeding traditionalist