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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 11:28:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: NEWNEWS
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>news server.  As Rich Salz mentions in another message, NEWNEWS is also
>a good way of raping the victim host and sending its performance to
>hell, since it's fairly inefficient in the way it's implemented.
With the proper set of indices, NEWNEWS becomes as cheap as just about
any other command.

Of course, not every single host will be able to afford building the proper
set of indices. :-)

Jim Thompson knows the "proper set."
	/r$