[NNTP] Re: [ietf-nntp] draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-01.txt

[Andrew - Supernews]

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

 Ken> Would a client really intermingle CHECK and TAKETHIS within the
 Ken> same pipeline of commands?

 >> Absolutely. It's the normal case, in fact.

 Ken> Can you explain?

 Ken> I assumed that the client would first pipeline a series of CHECK
 Ken> commands to build a list of articles that the server wants.
 Ken> Then the client sends the articles with a pipeline of TAKETHIS
 Ken> commands.

The client never actually stops sending CHECKs. Remember that the
objective is to keep the pipe full at all times, unless the supply of
articles to send dries up (which is not usually a problem). The
entire transfer session is just one big pipeline.

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