CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> Agreed, though I tend to try and keep the pipe full when
RJT> I'm online, downloading mail, files, etc. so I don't flip
RJT> over to that too often. 

CA> I _used_ to mutitask as many as the equipment could handle but
CA> after using a cable connection for almost a year I got out of the
CA> habit. :-) 

I'm finding that on this particular dialup it doesn't seem to pay when I'm
pulling in mail,  or at least the first (usually larger) batch of the day. 
I get too many timeouts from the other end,  which doesn't seem to handle
it well.


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