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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Wanted: news batching with compression
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 13:12:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 13:12:54 1984
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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.