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 In article <832805910_OASIS_@compuserve.com>
  100710.1360@compuserve.com (Bruno Kozlowski) said:-

>    -a) INN 1.4 unoff3 (and perhaps unoff4): the "NEWNEWS list.of.groups
>date time GMT" command used by NOS to get a list of messageIDs does not
>work properly... I recieve a complete list of *all* articles the server
>has in the requested groups, not only articles recieved after date/time...
>This is a big problem, because even if I maintain a history file of 2000
>IDs, NOS will download very old articles I recieved yet 2-3 weeks ago...
>maintain a bigger history file (3000 IDs? 4000?) is not a good thing, as
>it is much slower for NOS to scan duplicates.

Not too sure about this but I think there are a couple of different 
ways newservers can behave. It sounds like this one doesn't implement 
NEWNEWS and is sending headers for clients to pick which they want 
perhaps?

>    I dont know why, but sometimes NOS seems to scan history for
>duplicates very quickly, say 20-30 duplicates per second (in memory?), and
>sometimes much more slowly (on disk?) at a rate around only 2 duplicates
>found per second. Someone knows how to force NOS to scan in memory? The
>strange thing is I would say it's not dependent of the lenght of the
>lists, but of the number of nntp session already done in the same
>connexion... I get news from 4 servers each time, the last 2 sessions are
>always slow.

I thought the Nos history file was truncated at 1000 articles?

>5) when will pubnews.demon.co.uk be back to service?

It's being used as a development machine atm iirc. I would personally 
be surprised if it ever appeared again. Note that I don't speak for 
demon on this - it's just my personal opinion!

Sorry I've not been any help!


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk