Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 16:43

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In article <FKT#$T&@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>... standard with C News.  If you want to pay the extra costs of doing
>>an unpacking immediately (it does cost a little extra, it turns out),
>>you have to work at it.
>
>I agree, if you use the standard C News method...

Jon, it costs a little extra no matter how you do it; amortizing startup
and shutdown overhead over multiple batches is a win even when those
overheads are small.  Of course, it may not be enough of a win to be
worth bothering with.
-- 
"The N in NFS stands for Not, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked?
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