Aduke.1416 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Wed Nov 25 14:24:30 1981 Re: ihnss.263: B netnews performance My apologies to ihnss and other systems that have labored under the fantastic cpu load presented by version A (Duke) news. However, some defense is in order: 1. The originally distributed version of Duke news, written principally by Stephen Daniel (duke!swd), was designed assuming there would be about one article/day. It used general but inefficient algorithms, but was much faster than the shell version by Steven Bellovin (unc!smb). 2. The most recent version of A news is *much* faster. It is available as duke!~uucp/news.tar. (You have a recent version if it has "incremental subscriptions", so that "news -s dept !fa.arms-d" adds department news and turns off that ARPA newsgroup, for example.) Even Duke will probably run B news someday, but it should not be chosen for its speed. Tom Truscott (duke!trt) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.