Re: Mail serve

On 21 Apr 2025 09:27:46 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/20/2025 3:17 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:

I am an old-school Thunderbird user still. It allows me
access to Eternal Sept to read this newsgroup. Not even sure
if news groups are even used anymore we seem to be a bunch
of crazy old cyclist.
 
Thunderbird is good but slow and I would possible like to go
to Outlook but it will cost $70 a year. What are you all
using for your email program and getting the newsgroup.
Pretty sure Andrew is doing what I do but maybe not for all
email.

 
Thunderbird is not slow for me.
 
There was a decade or so when I considered myself as
informed as anyone on building, configuring, modifying and
repairing computes and in that time I wrote the software my
employees used for inventory tracking, customer sales
records, payroll and general ledger. That was very long ago
and I can't do much with modern systems now; we use a tech
service.
 
After a service call here last week I asked the tech about
girlfriend's laptop which I bought new just a few years ago.
He said laptops are prone to hard drive degradation which
will slow everything. I'm going to drop it off for analysis.

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Hard drives physically seem to last decades even smaller laptop style
drives. Clearly they are a physical spinning disk, so have bearing and so
on.
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Older file systems where prone to fragmentation ie data being stored in
multiple places which would slow I/O though more modern systems doesn’t
seem to be a thing.

 
You might get an expert opinion on your own system
(including router and modem) before committing to Out House.
 

Unless one is downloading binary’s Usenet is so data efficient I get the
feed at times when it will not load email let alone browse the web.
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I’d expect that any network problems would manifest much more with data
intensive software such as streaming video or web browsing.
>
Not used a modern windows system for a while but I’d assume it has a task
manager that can display I/O of data and network plus memory and CPU
useage.
>
Roger Merriman
>

Some computers use solid state drives. They are much faster, but there
are concerns over the number of read/write cycles.

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C'est bon
Soloman