Snipping

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On Wed, 03 May 2000 07:46:35 sudipt sen wrote:

>as a Hotmail user, my mailbox limit is 2 mb.

 

I use a web based mail server as well...

but one with a 4 MB limit.

I was going to suggest to you that the digest

version of the list might be more suitable

since you travel, but the digest version

won't solve any in box size problems.

 

And then you say this:

>Added to the rather slow transfer rate in India, ... big mails cause a problem.

Big as in the Digest.

 

Right. We should snip. At least a little.

 

OK... if you have serious problems with the

in box size and number of mails,

you may wish to change web mail server

to one that provides a larger account,

make up more than one mail account

say one for work related mails and one for

private mails (probably you already did)

or only read the list directly at onelist.

Onelist has a decent reply system, so one can

still be a member of the list but only read

messages on the web.

 

However, the onelist system can be slow

as it contains a lot of information, so the

problem with slow transfer is not solved

with this approach either.

 

I'm just thinking loud here Sudipt, to

see what can be done with high volumes

and low transfer rates.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com

[Guest guest]

If it may help,

 

I have been using the archives of /onelist for a couple of

weeks, being d on no-mail, but still having access to the

archives. This may solve the problem of the 2mb mail box, since you

do

not receive the emails. But it does not solve the band with problem,

au contraire, if you pay the bds you receive, brownsing the archives

is more bds expensive than simply recieving the e-mails. Wish i

could cut away the publicity, the bds would go down by 50% at

least. Putting the brownser on no image (for publicity) may limit

this

problem. And there is no accumulation of email in your pop, or pc,

while you are away.

 

One thing interesthing with the archives over the onelist, is

that they are uptated more than every minute. So one may follow the

exchange more closelly, if he/she fells like it. As if they where

coming in the in the mail box.

 

Pushing farder, with the free service of lest say Net mind:

http://www.netmind.com

One may even be alerterd each time a page is changed like:

/messages/

But i would not suggest not using net-mind on a page like this last

one. One would receive a generated email 30 times a day telling that

the page has been changed.

 

One thing less interesthing for me, is that there is no intergrated

spell corrector yet integrated to this repply system that I am using

now. But with a little cut and paste the problem may be solved, when

i

am not to lasy.

 

At your service Sudipt,

 

Antoine

> >as a Hotmail user, my mailbox limit is 2 mb.

> >Added to the rather slow transfer rate in India, ... big mails

cause a problem. Big as in the Digest.