On 3 Mar 2001 22:37:40 +0100, kEv said:

> Hi,
> After downloading just the headers for news articles, getting the actual articles is 
>now
> taking ages on btinternet (up to 20 seconds between each one). Anyone else noticed 
>this
> prob? Tried the same using THOR and it seems a lot quicker.... any ideas?

Yup. News is screwed at BTI atm.
Any client that D/Ls by Message ID suffers a huge delay in getting the
article.

Apparently, the whole news server farm is being changed "early summer"

Chris.

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