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  • S Steve Mayfield

    1200 baud was the rate of my first modem card :sigh: The first message in the inbox is the "welcome to ATT ISP" message. Most of the messages are group messages from one of my other hobbies (yes, I do have a few) I do tend to save the personal ones and occasionally read some while searching for something else. The really important ones get their own folders - I have 42. About once a year, I prune down the inbox so as to keep the size below 4GB - the limit for each folder in Outlook Express.

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    Roger Wright
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    Steve Mayfield wrote:

    1200 baud was the rate of my first modem card

    ;P Got you beat there - mine was 300 baud (not counting the 110 baud units used by the college, with acoustic couplers), and the first connection was Bank of America Online Banking. It took 20 minutes to make a transfer or view a check, but it was far better than driving 45 minutes to the nearest bank branch. There was no email then, of course, but we had Compuserve!

    "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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    • R Reaton

      Famile and friends, remember them...? LEave posts like this one to get your attention... !! DAVE... COME BACK.. !!!

      RJEaton

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      Raevn
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      When family wants my attention, someone opens the breaker for my apartment. Nasty, but the UPS lets me keep the data. Me2 had Compuserve (73477.1715) at 300 baud. I could actually read it as it scrolled into the 3x5" display on my portable Commode-Door (Commodore) machine. :doh: Raevn


      Ask not what you must do for your computer. Ask [instead], what your computer can do to you [if'n you don't]. ~with apologies to JFK

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      • R Roger Wright

        the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:

        "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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        z974647
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        When you name your cat CP.

        What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do? He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.

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        • R Roger Wright

          the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:

          "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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          Fahad Sadah
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          213 out of 652 - I'm alright. Probably a lot more at my old email address though. PS: I created a CodeProject folder (label actually-gmail) just for this thread.

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          • R Roger Wright

            the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:

            "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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            Dan Neely
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            "thousands" out of 12k and change in my gmail account. I can't do better until I get home. OTOH my other gmail account: 1 - 50 of 381546 You are currently using 4160 MB (57%) of your 7271 MB. :cool:

            Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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              "thousands" out of 12k and change in my gmail account. I can't do better until I get home. OTOH my other gmail account: 1 - 50 of 381546 You are currently using 4160 MB (57%) of your 7271 MB. :cool:

              Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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              Roger Wright
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              dan neely wrote:

              1 - 50 of 381546

              Damn! Do you deliberately subscribe to spam lists? :omg:

              "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                When you name your cat CP.

                What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do? He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.

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                My cat is called Symbian. He likes it. :laugh:

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                • R Roger Wright

                  dan neely wrote:

                  1 - 50 of 381546

                  Damn! Do you deliberately subscribe to spam lists? :omg:

                  "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                  Nope that's several years (since feb 05) of snarfing all the posts to Baen's Bar.[^] I typically use the NNTP feed to read posts, but gmail's got a better search function than my client. Peak traffic (typically following a new David Weber book) has hit the 1000 post/day range. Normal traffic is only about 1/4th to 1/3rd of that.

                  Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                  • A Allen Anderson

                    Gmail frustrates the heck out of me. :) I meant more as in clients for email. If I had my dream email client/server it would have a lot of different ways to 'view' my emails with easier to use filters, would keep my email on the server and cache it locally (but do it a lot better than exchange server does), allow me to see even the deepest technical details of a raw email, etc. the list goes on

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                    Allen Anderson wrote:

                    would keep my email on the server and cache it locally (but do it a lot better than exchange server does)

                    I know these guys have some of what you're talking about, not sure about all of it but they might eventually get there: http://www.thinctechnology.com/[^]

                    T-Mac-Oz "When I'm ruler of the universe ... I'm working on it, I'm working on it. I'm just as frustrated as you are. It turns out to be a non-trivial problem." - Linus Torvalds

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                    • F Fahad Sadah

                      213 out of 652 - I'm alright. Probably a lot more at my old email address though. PS: I created a CodeProject folder (label actually-gmail) just for this thread.

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                      Fahad Sadah wrote:

                      I created a CodeProject folder (label actually-gmail) just for this thread.

                      I'm honored! :-D Really, it's grown beyond all expectations. You'd think, after all these years, I'd be able to tell in advance when a topic will generate huge interest. But I'm still surprised every time I post something I expect to generate two responses ends up a page-long thread.

                      "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                        Fahad Sadah wrote:

                        I created a CodeProject folder (label actually-gmail) just for this thread.

                        I'm honored! :-D Really, it's grown beyond all expectations. You'd think, after all these years, I'd be able to tell in advance when a topic will generate huge interest. But I'm still surprised every time I post something I expect to generate two responses ends up a page-long thread.

                        "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                        Fahad Sadah
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                        It was emailed to all of us. PS: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Mailouts/View.aspx?mlid=3245[^] You might have it in your inbox - Monday 08th (yesterday)

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                        • R Roger Wright

                          the number of emails in the CodeProject folder (3112) exceeds the number in the Inbox (1148). :-D Yes, I really should clean them out, but it's so tedious! I never formed the habit of deleted messages after reading them back when the Internet was new. :sigh:

                          "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                          daniel_at_work
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                          You admins ban the site becuase the assume it must be porn

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