Date   : Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:45:38 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: BEEB Stuff

Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...> wrote:
> Angus Duggan wrote:
> > The only problem I would have with it is the volume of email. My current
> > incoming mailbox is over 2MB, and I process hundreds of kB per week.
Fitting
> 
> IMAP would ease this situation - the inbox is stored on the server, so
> the poor old Beeb would only have to deal with one message at a time.
 
My email+news echos is currently running at about 500k per day.  One of my
trusty Beebs dutifully dials in and fetches it and chops it up into
messages for me, getting rid of as much extraneaous rubbish as it can.
 
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