On Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:09:35 -0500 Gary Burrell <garyb@pentek.com>
writes: (odds and sods thereof)
>It seems the major problem is AOL's limit on 100 messages in your mail
>box. On
>number of AOL subscribers means a lot of messages. Most providers
>don't
>have this
>limit. Although a limit is there on all providers even if it's just
>how
>much
>disk space can be removed before the mail spooler fills up. 2
>solutions
>come to
>mind:
>
>1: Get AOL to remove the 100 message limit on you mailbox.
>
>2: Have AOL run a redirector/remailer on the list. I did this at a
>former company when there were a couple of us subscribed to the list.
>
>I set up an list acount that turned around and forwarded all the mail
>to the readers, thus only one copy was coming into the site. AOL
>could
>do this and the benifits would be twofold, 1 it would reduce the
>bandwidth
>used as there would only be a single message sent to AOL for each
>message, 2
>there would be a single point of errors.
>Best of luck
>
>Gary.
>--
>Gary Burrell
>Design Engineer
>Pentek Inc. One Park Way, Upper Saddle River NJ 07463
>Phone: (201)818-5900 Fax: (201)818-5941 Email:garyb@pentek.com
>
BUT DOES THAT R E A L L Y MEAN THAT I CAN TAPE ONE PROGRAMME WHILE I'M
WATCHING ANOTHER??????
mike robson
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