ProLine lag effect

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <if32391@pro-finders.cts.com> jguy@pro-finders.cts.com (Jerry Guy) writes:
>In <CDCqyC.K7t@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>
>What is it that you are calling 'the ProLine lag'? The fact is that on many
>ProLine system the mail is only fetched and delivered every couple of days,
>or once a day, or once a week. This is a sysops choice to save money on long
>distance phone charges, not a software lag or defect. I'm sure that every
>sysop would love to have a direct connection to a system on the internet, or
>hourly poll a local site for mail but this is a big country and some of us
>still live in a area where network access, Genie, AOL, Compuserve, and
>any other systems that carry usenet news and internet email are long distance
>calls. I think the problem is the phone company not the 'ProLine lag' as you
>so piously state from your throne. 

Whoa, cowboy.  I'm well aware that many ProLine systems are behind a few days
to save money; ProLine is still well ahead of many USENET capable systems on
other platforms.  I'm not "piously stating" anything, simply pointing out how
the workings of ProLine tend to cause c.s.a2 flame wars to suddenly reappear
days and weeks later.  I'm not trying to flame the ProLine software, sysops,
or systems; please read more carefully in the future.

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