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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: newses
Message-ID: <302@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 6 Feb 90 17:44:22 GMT
References: <648@enorm.eb.se> <1990Feb3.222301.24047@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1990Feb3.222301.24047@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp
	(Henry Spencer) writes:
>                                                       C News is much
>faster

Not clear that this is universally the case.  I'm administering
two independent news sites running B News; one receives
compressed batches with uucp, the other uses NNTP.  Guess which
one spends a lot of time on news?  The one that unbatches.  Where
is the time going?  inews?  WRONG.  The uncompress.  I suspect
C News is not going to make an appreciable difference.

P.S. B expire on ~120MB is pretty reasonable too.  The biggest
problem so far is disk fragmentation, and C News is not going to
help there either.

					-=EPS=-