> It depends. I used to have a 28K dial up connection. I'd
> get about 300 emails a day, about 75 real and the rest
> spam. Sometimes it would take a hour or so to download
> the daily email, including the spam. Sometimes it would
> hang 45 minutes into it, and it would have to be started
> all over...
>
> I was forced to get a broadband connection at home just to
> cope with the spam. Now the downloads happen stupidly
> fast, and the filters and anti-spam software catch most of
> it. But I also had to upgrade my system to a faster one,
> simply because with all the extra anti-spam, anti-spyware,
> and anti-virus (and all the automatic updates to said
> software) software running, the system was too
> sloooooooooow...
>
> Not that having broadband and a faster machine isn't nice,
> but the old one was doing just fine, and it was an expense
> (and a recurring monthly expense) that was forced on me
> because of the spammers, etc.
>
> Tim Mullen
Tim, I still run a dialup at home. The trick it to let your
ISP do the heavy work before you download.
I go to webmail at the ISP. I empty the spam filter at the
ISP. If at the office, I read the mail on the ISP webmail.
Since the ISP webmail is slow for reading, I do things
different when I am at home on the dialup. I go to webmail
at the ISP. I empty the spam filter at the ISP. I sort the
messages by size and delete the ones with attachments. I
then download my mail and dial off. I get the best of both
worlds without broadband.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban, 1994 Miata
C package
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