Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I have been busy setting up my own mail service so I don't have to
use an ISPs one and well over 50% of the incoming email is now
being rejected
Didn't you say above that this is a waste of bandwidth? ducks

No, its less bandwidth to reject them THERE in some core connected
machine room, than download em. And they get rejected the moment they
connect.

Aggh sorry - too late at night.

You haven't been online as long as I have or sent as many emails..

Early 80s probably.

there wasn't an online in the early 80s.

I think it was 1985 before there was UUCP usenet in the UK.

UUCP itself was only 1979 as an invention.

www.uknof.org.uk/uknof6/Houlder-History.pdf