Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xylogics!loverso From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: nntpxfer Message-ID: <8876@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Date: 12 Apr 90 15:03:20 GMT References: <1990Apr1.223737.11095@mlb.semi.harris.com> Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA Lines: 24 In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: > >... nntpxfer ... > >This puppy is slow. It took about 3 hours to fetch 4K articles, and it > > I have some fixes for these things that will hopefully be included in a > future nntp release. Until then, copies are available on request. After seeing how slow it really was, I just changed it to just do the NEWNEWS and return a list of message-ids I need. You can then just turn that into a sendme control message to the other host. Thus, the articles will get to your machine using standard whatever xmit channel you already use (nntpxmit/nntplink/etc). As an aside, but I just found out that this is an easy way to retrieve articles that the nntp access file won't let you have. I.e., a "newnews *" will list message-ids for all articles, even if you are not allowed to get transfer them. However, that restriction doesn't exist on sendme control messages. Of course, this only works against sites that feed you news to begin with... John -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 x284 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group