CompuServe Messages

No, I wasn't online 18 months ago. I didn't seriously think that CIS is going out of their way to cripple performance. And I did qualify what I said with a "providing it doesn't drive people away". If you think you're getting good performance (i.e. XMODEM) and are certainly willing to pay for as many downloads as you find might be useful, than there's no real advantage in introducing a new, faster protocol. Though cetainly if there are enough folks dissatisfied with DL times, a faster protocol might make CIS more money by enticing them into doing more downloads (and those already satisfied are unlikely to go out and buy a terminal prog. with the new protocol). What I don't understand is, if it would really help CIS to implement a newer, faster protocol, why not do it. Most of these are so small I can't imagine them having trouble with the system requirements of implementing several additional protocols. Though I imagine a menu of 20 or so protocols would be a little annoying on your first DL of the day. But I've talked to many free & private BBS systems that have a much better selection of protocols than CIS.