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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Maxwell House Daemon)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: SPOOLNEWS & nntp
Message-ID: <14956@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 28 Jul 88 21:12:59 GMT
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David Herron sez:
> It's amazing what you'll do when you're bored.  One afternoon I moved the
> SPOOLNEWS code from inews.c into nntpd to see what sort of effect it would
> have on the system load, it "seems" to help quite a bit.

This may be a big loser, David.  Until you process the article it
won't be in the history file.  Hence nntpd will continue to accept
more copies of that article until you run rnews -U.  This increases
the network load, which defeats one of the goals of NNTP.  Since you
say you often have multiple incoming NNTP sessions, I think you will
get multiple copies quite often.  Check your log.  I know that oddjob
sometimes get offered the same article from two sources (separated by
over 1000 miles) mere seconds apart.
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu