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From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Subject: Cost of news feed versus reading with NNTP?
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Date: 7 Feb 91 01:07:17 GMT
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Obviously, both _sending_ a news feed via NNTP and allowing users to
read remotely with rrn or equavalent put a load on the NNTP host. I
don't imagine that the load they inflict is the same -- different
operations are involved in many parts of the code.

(Of course the receiving end will have very different costs for the
two methods, but I'm only asking about the _provider_.)

Does anyone have statistics which can show the relative cost of remote
reading versus a full news feed?

I guess the best way to gauge it would be in terms of the time per
article transferred via either method.  Then to arrive at a locally
relevant figure, I can look at the number of articles in a full feed
versus some estimate of the number of articles which would be read by
the people here.  Does the news software (B|C News, etc.) have any
effect?

Thanks for any help you can give.
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David Bernholdt			bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu
Quantum Theory Project		bernhold@ufpine.bitnet
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL  32611		904/392 6365