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In article <4nokrk$qe4@panix2.panix.com>, Anthony Gold <tgold@panix.com> wrote:
>Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:
>
>Unless you have a very small number of newsgroups, your nntp client will
>issue many NEWNEWS commands, each with a separate list of newsgroups.  I

That's an interesting point; it is an area where the very earliest
NewsBorg changes broke KA9Q, because the second and subsequent passes
would have originally been in the same sequence as the first, and just
needed a short forward search, whereas the group sorted results will
involve a lot more complete passes of the history file.

Although Anthony argues against Demon doing anything, this would seem an
argument for sorting the results by time.  Actually, in many cases, the
number of newsgroups actually selected by a single NEWNEWS will tend to
be less than the open file descriptor limit for a modern Unix process,
so it ought to be possible to just merge the returned hits, based on
time of arrival (this avoids a delay waiting for the last record to be
read before sorting).
-- 
David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk