Leif:

On Mon, 11 February 2002, "Leif Svalgaard" wrote:

> maybe I used the wrong word.  For the message to be filtered on my side
> don't I have to get it first over the phone line (that was my "in-channel")?
> It is getting it that takes the time. How does the server know that I don't
> want a given message?

Yes and no. A decent client should at least allow you to fetch headers-only and 
then download just chosen message bodies or delete messages on the server from 
the list of headers.

Tom Liotta

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