Re: well...

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:36:59PM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:36:50PM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:

>>>Does newsx check for new messages while it download,
>>>and then restart from the beginnng?

>>Afaik no, it'd slow things down a lot.
 
> How do you mean slow things down?

You'd have all the time-consuming overhead (opening all groups,
checking whether there are new articles) you'd normally have for
downloading 200 Articles, just for downloading 5 articles.
                cu andreas

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