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- From: trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
- Subject: Re: spool vs. nntp
- Message-ID: <TROST.92Sep10132845@romulus.reed.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 20:28:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: romulus.TROST.92Sep10132845
- References: <KPC.92Sep6190107@kronos-arclan.arc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Reed College
- Lines: 23
- In-Reply-To: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov's message of 7 Sep 92 03:01:07 GMT
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- In article <KPC.92Sep6190107@kronos-arclan.arc.nasa.gov> kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c) writes:
- if because of nfs you have the choice of using the spool or nntp,
- which is:
- more reliable?
- more protective of news reading privacy?
- faster?
- better?
-
- i assume nntp is more flaky. can root tell what newsgroups or files
- somebody is accessing? for speed, they seem not too different to me
- so far.
-
- I have found NNTP to be dramatically faster when entering a newsgroup
- -- even for a local disk! This is pretty easy to explain: When gnus
- puts together the subject lines, it has to load the *entire* message
- when using nnspool, but the NNTP daemon only needs to read the actual
- headers to supply the XHDR response to gnus. This is most dramatic
- when reading, say, a sources or binaries group.
-
- On the other hand, posting seems to be slower using NNTP. I don't
- understand why this is the case.
- --
- Bill Trost <trost@reed.edu> Discriminating Oregonians support the OCA.
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