On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 10:37, Bernt Hansson wrote: > What I mean is after newsx has downloaded all the articles in subscribed > groups, it would start from the first group again to see if there are > new articles.
This is not difficult to do, you just running newsx one more time. In fact you may want to run it over and over again untill you get the "no news is good news" message - which may in fact never happen if your load is high enough. If you have very few groups/articles, then probably you would see no need for this since there will probably not be any new articles. If you have a lot of groups and/or articles, then the extra overhead of the extra disconnent/connect probably would be negligible. Either way, I would not be too happy about adding this as a "feature" since it would automatically put a heaver load on the servers. Also, consider this: With a polling concept like newsx, you simply have to accept that if you run newsx every T hours (or minutes), the average delay for articles will be T/2 hours. If you want to reduce that time by polling more, it is much better to poll every T/2 hours (bringing the average delay down to T/4) instead of polling twice every T hours. Egil -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice/videophone: +47 22523641 Voice: +47 92022780 Fax: +47 22525899 Mail: Egil Kvaleberg, Husebybakken 14A, 0379 Oslo, Norway Home: http://www.kvaleberg.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sent to you because you are subcribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from this lists, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing "unsubscribe newsx <your_email_address>" in the message body.
