ietf-nntp Wildmats (was: draft posted)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Nov 28 10:59:07 PST 2001


Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> (Note that the mention of LIST NEWSGROUPS being very efficient with a
>> single group name has since been removed from the draft and shouldn't
>> be reintroduced by this change, and the other changes to the text
>> elsewhere in the document should be reviewed against -14.)

> Yes, that all seems fine. It is pretty obvious which sentences should be
> removed if you don't want to say anything about the efficiency of single
> group names (though I still believe that they are more efficient).

There previously was some discussion of various server implementations of
this feature and the conclusion was reached based on looking at the
implementation methods that most servers do not index the newsgroups file
and therefore specifying a single group is not noticeably faster.  Did you
disagree with that analysis?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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