🚀 go-pugleaf

>From: Dan Ellis <ellis@admin.microserve.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <mis-talk@microserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Lots of news - Need testers. (new news server)
>
>We do not have the machine on all the backbones yet, it is still in the
>"lab"... Anyway, one ethernet card failed at 8:30.  It is back up now.
>Hopefully Monday it will be placed into the production room and hooked
>into all the backbones.  (Redundency then)..
>
>I think we just overloaded one ethernet card in it...
>
>Let me know your results again

OK. First evaluation from me between hanging decorations and wrapping
<yeeeeccchhh> stuff for next week:

One of the set of groups I read, rec.pets.cats.*, has long suffered from
missing articles, making it difficult to follow ongoing discussions. In one
session here today I've picked up most of the missing articles from the
past few days that still aren't on the main server. That's enough for me to
hang a conditional "Good-O" label on the new machine. The 'conditional'
part is to see whether the one binary group I follow,
alt.binaries.sounds.radio.oldtime, starts showing more completed or, at the
very least, less missing parts than has been the norm on the main server in
the past. 

Speed? Definately improved. Can't quantify it at this point but it's
readily apparent even from a casual observation. 

Off I go for another "Get all headers....." session. 

BTW, nice Christmas present guys. Thanks!

Whattaya do fer an encore? :)



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