From: Randall Parker 

Mike N. wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:49:01 +1000, John Beckett
>  wrote:
>
>> Since you are now a (potential) Linux guru, you should install Wireshark
>> (the new Ethereal) and sniff network traffic to see exactly what is
>> happening.
>
>    I was able to reproduce this and see the same thing on the Barkto news
> group.    The news server actually switches into 'cripple mode' - sending
> one character at a time and waiting for the Ack before sending the next
> character.

Wow. Are you on Linux or Windows?

>
>   But it's not repeatable.  I tried Telnet and everything worked at normal
> speed.  I went back to Thunderbird and it worked at normal speed.

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