Re: well...

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:37:54AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> >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.
 
> What I mean is after newsx has downloaded all the articles in subscribed
> groups, it would start from the first group again to see if there are
> new articles. That have to be done anyway so way not in the same 
> session. You could have newsx running in "continous" mode like in Dnews.
> That would be a great feature!

Personally I think it is faeture that sucks :-) it reduces the
articles/second ratio and puts a bigger stress on the upstream server.
            cu andreas

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