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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 17 Oct 1996 22:03:47 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <54733j$f0n@itchy.serv.net> References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <544bat$41o@twwells.com> <5453hf$7n7@itchy.serv.net> <5462uf$r7o@twwells.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <5462uf$r7o@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote: >In article <5453hf$7n7@itchy.serv.net>, Me! . <zeno@serv.net> wrote: >: this isn't my experience. we were running non-streaming nntplink to a >: news server that was about 30ms away from us, and we were able to keep >: current ; I think they have 4 or 5 other feeds. > >For your feed that stays current, you should check the dup >numbers. Odds are that, if they had streaming feeds as well, most >articles from you were rejected as dups. In some situations, this >allows a nonstreaming feed to at least not overflow its batch >files.... You are correct ; the typical dup rate was about 80-90%. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson