umweber on Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:12:35 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Publicly accessible news server?


Heh, I'm using tin pre-1.4, but looking at the -h option I see that -Q
(quickstart) is the same and -npd

-- 
Michelle Weber
umweber@mcs.drexel.edu


On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, John Nolan wrote:

> > 
> > tin -Q is pretty quick :-)
> > 
> 
> Hm.  My version of tin (1.2) doesn't have -Q. 
> (Was that a joke?  Ha ha.  :)
> 
> I run tin with both -q and -r.  I'm not sure
> if there are any settings I can tweak on tin to get it
> to not continually scan the entire set of newsgroups.  
> Even though I'm only subscribed to a dozen groups, tin still
> keeps records on every newsgroup in the local .newsrc file
> that it stores.  OpNet has more than 40,000 newsgroups. (!)
> 
> The connection to the news server is generally not sluggish, 
> however, every time tin starts up, and also each time it queries
> for new posts, it hangs for a considerable amount of time.
> I'm not sure what it's doing during this time, but I'm guessing
> that it has something to do with the huge number of groups. 
> 
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