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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: NNTP vs Cnews (was: Re: Cnews is not for me)
Message-ID: <527@logicon.arpa>
Date: 13 Aug 89 14:23:28 GMT
References: <2828@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1989Aug12.221624.12153@utstat.uucp> <1894@ucsd.EDU> <1989Aug13.071802.5187@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Aug13.071802.5187@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>There is a fundamental tradeoff here which simply can't be escaped:
>efficient processing of large amounts of news requires amortizing setup
>overhead over more than one article, while lightning-fast propagation
>requires processing each article as it arrives.

I can think of two ways to have the best of both worlds: (1) merge
nntp and rnews into one program and (2) change rnews into a daemon.  I
like the second method better.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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