Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff
From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: C News and ihave/sendme
Message-ID: <1990Mar18.221304.29721@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <1990Mar17.070106.3572@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <C%*$YA_@b-tech.uucp>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 90 22:13:04 GMT

Jon Zeeff:
>Check the load caused by using ihave/sendme - C News uses the very slow 
>inews script to post the ihave articles.

We run batched ihave/sendme between utzoo and utstat (unbatched
ihave/sendme is a disaster for any news system).  The extra load due to
ihave/sendme is trivial: one, or occasionally two, extra ``very slow''
inews(es) per hour.  I think we can stand it.

inews can afford to be slow since it is invoked relatively infrequently.
Anyone using inews to gateway mailing lists into newsgroups should
instead see contrib/nntpmail for a faster way to gateway.  Nevertheless,
slowness is not a goal of inews and work is underway to produce a
somewhat more portable and faster inews (ah, for the good old days when
shell scripts were more portable than C!).
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu