ietf-nntp HDR

[Ade Lovett]

On 01/07/02 04:08, "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> wrote:

> Ade Lovett said:
>>> XHDR was not linked to overview in most implementations, only in some.
>>> don't see a reason to unnecessarily limit HDR compared XHDR.
>> Well, welcome to the Real World [tm] outside of Usenet Academia.  Sorry, but
>> I'm not going to listen to those that have absolutely no comprehension of
>> even the tiniest part of scaling.  You want HDR to work outside over
>> "overview" headers, cool.  It ain't happening.  Deal with it.
> 
> Oh no ?
>
> [snip]
>
> Now isn't that strange ? Ade Lovett's news server doesn't put X-Trace in
> the overview but XHDR returns it.

Not particularly.  First off, it's "Demon's" news server, although I
happened to write it (something which I'm sure you're aware of) and
secondly, anything that requires opening up a whole slew of actual articles
is an absolute performance pig.  Tell you what, give me two streams, and
I'll (benignly, and with your knowledge) kill the respective nnrpd box.

You probably also knew that.  Usenet "scale" has moved on considerably since
development ceased on the NewsBorg.  Some things which are in there,
shouldn't be, and vice-versa.

-aDe