ietf-nntp Wildmats (was: draft posted)
Charles Lindsey
chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Thu Nov 29 03:55:44 PST 2001
In <ylr8qik9hg.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
>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?
Actually, what I had in mind was that simple group names were identified
more efficiently that widlmats. But I am happy to see the wording removed
either way.
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