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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: relaynews too slow
Message-ID: <19420@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 23 Sep 90 18:11:25 GMT
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In article <8?P*Z-=@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>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.

That's because nntpxfer is a hack kluge and wasn't really ever supposed
to be used in production systems.  I can say that: I wrote it.

Batch transmission will be supported in NNTP v2.
	- Brian