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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Wanted: news batching with compression
Message-ID: <955@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 14:49:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 14:49:43 1984
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Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA
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>	If forking rnews once per article is your worst problem with news, you
>	aren't feeding many other machines.  We found that most of the overhead
>	was in uux, queueing articles for other machines.  Once we started
>	batching news, the overhead went down enormously.
True, we don't feed many sites.  On the other hand we also don't queue articles
for transmission, we queue requests.  I use the U flag in the third field of
the lines in my sys file.  The U flag says don't copy the article to the uucp
spool queue, rather spool a C. file requesting transmission of the article
from its permanent storage in the news morgue.  You need the -c option in your
uux to do this.  That change is distributed with the news software.
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