Re: Mail serve

Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

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.

 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

Yup this said touch wood my fairly arcane systems seem fine, all on flash
drives do have some external hard drives.

But yes I’ve heard it said or written more accurately, possibly depends on
use case as well.

--
C'est bon
Soloman
 

Roger Merriman