Arabbit.264 net.misc utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!npois!rabbit!sjb Wed Feb 24 17:45:39 1982 Re: Amount of news You are assuming that news is constantly flowing into a system. In fact, some (most? I have no info on numbers) systems are polled at regular (as regular as can be...) times instead of called as soon as one article is waiting for it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.