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Re: [Plug] Publicly accessible news server?
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Heh, I'm using tin pre-1.4, but looking at the -h option I see that -Q
(quickstart) is the same and -npd
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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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