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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: relaynews too slow
Message-ID: <8?P*Z-=@b-tech.uucp>
Date: 23 Sep 90 15:45:49 GMT
References: <1990Sep20.212757.12868@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1990Sep23.000826.15925@zoo.toronto.edu>
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>The underlying problem is that NNTP does not take notice of the fact that
>transferring and processing articles a batch at a time is much more
>efficient than doing them one at a time.  The UUCP community learned that


I've modified a version of nntpxfer that batches  a number of articles
into memory and then feeds it to relaynews.  Others have done similar
things.  It is MUCH more efficient - I'm suprised than the distribution
version doesn't do something similar.

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Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us