PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!

When I use the Linux box, my ppp-connection is becoming so slow that I have difficulty in handling a few email messages. I cannot think of ftp or other internet services. Ping produces the following results (only while using Linux. On winsock {windows 3.1} the average is about 232ms with no pack

Reading news offline, leafnode and syslog-problems.

Thank you to everyone who responded. One person even sent his config-files for suck and inn. That helped me to get suck going. After experimenting I decided to follow the advice on this list to try out leafnode. It is easy to install and configure and at the moment I use it in combination with t

Another smail question or two

Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous questions on smail. I have a dialup-ppp connection with an Internet Service Provider. My usename at the ISP is jhspies while I use js as a username on my own machine (which is not part of a network). I call my computer johann. What happened

A few (stupid?) smail questions

I am sorry if I ask stupid questions, but I will appreciate it if somebody can help. I am relatively new to Linux and am trying to set up connections to my internet provider. At the moment I can use a PPP-connection using minicom, logging in manually and then running lynx, ftp, elm, tkmail or wha

How do I use longtable in LaTeX

I want to compare three documents in paralel columns in a report. The comparison will stretch over about 20 pages. I believe LaTeX have the possibility to do that. So far I could not find any documentation on how to use "longtable" that, according to one of the LaTeX-newsletters can do it. Can s