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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Mail serve
Date: 21 Apr 2025 09:27:46 GMT
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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