On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:48:36 +0900, "Rona Y."
> wrote:
<snip>
>Granted, I may be the only person who has this problem and really, why
>change for just one person? Well, you don't have to. Do what you want, I'm
>just making a request. Whether you honour it or not is your decision.
>
>Thanks to those who do, ciao to those who don't.
>
>rona (who is aware that this post is also costing me money)

Can you do more off-line? I.e., on my newsreader I can choose which
bodies I want to download. It also gives an indication of how large
each post is which becomes a criterion for selection.

So, you can log in, download the headers, log off, choose the ones you
want to retrieve, reply to previously downloaded ones (including
writing new ones) at your leisure off-line, log in, download the ones
you've selected/retrieve new headers/send your own posts, and log off
again.

Of course, it would be ideal if people trimmed and kept to the topic,
but working off-line might help too.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!