Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!network!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!logicon.arpa!Makey 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> Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 15 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 Disclaimer: Logicon doesn't even know we're running news. Internet: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA UUCP: {nosc,ucsd}!logicon.arpa!Makey