Subject: Re: Emailing the news From: meyer@newslink.org Date: Fri, 14 Apr 95 02:12:28 PDT

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>My impression, from visiting various web sites, is that the connection
>isn't fast enough or reliable enough to meet daily newspaper standards.
>Even at industrial strength sites like NANDO or Wired, it can take a while
>to get on, or you can be rejected because the server is too busy. This is,
>in my opinion, *entirely* unacceptable if what you are selling people
>purports to be the electronic equivalent of a daily newspaper. It *must* be
>available when the reader wants it, period.

I can get into Nando or Wired a lot easier than I can download an oversize 
E-mail file. And Nando or Wired's hit rate is going to be a lot higher, in 
all likelihood, than yours ever would be.

SLIP/PPP POPs and the cheapie Chameleon and Eudora mail readers are much 
less forgiving. Have someone send you an encoded copy of TimesFax and see 
how well your machine copes with it!

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ERIC K. MEYER                    meyer@newslink.org 
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