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| 680.1 | | FORSAN::FRENCHS | Semper in excernere | Thu Aug 26 1993 13:32 | 3 |
| Sorry no. Try NNTPD2. This server is much quicker and carries more feeds.
Simon
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| 680.2 | | WAYOUT::LOAT | 1 lump or 2, it's up to you! | Thu Aug 26 1993 14:04 | 8 |
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re .0
Try Les Carleton or Stephen Carpenter.
Both are in the Unix group in the Basingstoke CSC.
Steve.
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| 680.4 | Where is Forsan anyways? | DECUK::les | The Software Lifeguard | Fri Aug 27 1993 17:48 | 10 |
| >Sorry no. Try NNTPD2. This server is much quicker and carries more feeds.
WHAT??? How can connecting to Colorado Springs, and getting your news
from there be faster than getting it from Basingstoke?
BTW: nntpd2 carries 4874 Newsgroups
decuk carries 8078 newsgroups
...Les...
"Who's a co-newsadmin of decuk and news admin or betty"
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| 680.5 | | FORSAN::FRENCHS | Semper in excernere | Fri Aug 27 1993 17:54 | 7 |
| It supprised me somewhat. NNTPD2 carries several groups that DECUK doesn't. But
as for the speed, NNTPD2 appears to rescan, save, etc several times faster than
DECUK.
Forsan is in DEC park 1.
Simon
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| 680.6 | | DECUK::les | The Software Lifeguard | Fri Aug 27 1993 18:01 | 10 |
| > NNTPD2 appears to rescan, save, etc faster
Thats because its caryying less groups.
If you let me know which groups are missing, then i'll be happy to add
them. Provided they're not in the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
heirarchy, which are of course highly illegal to receive or transmit
in this country.
...Les...
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| 680.7 | The reason I asked... | ROCKS::HOBBS | | Tue Aug 31 1993 12:42 | 21 |
| Let me tell you why I asked the question in the base note
(since a few experts seem to being replying).
I'm currently using DECUK news server and the version of
VNEWS I'm using has for a second time refused to add new
groups saying "too many new groups". Not only that, its
takes around 20 minutes for VNEWS to go through the
NEWSRC file every time I start it up. This is just too
long and consequently I have not posted anything for
months.
I'm currently running VNEWS in batch mode overnight to
read the groups I'm following and I've tried hacking
a bit of DCL to post via batch but its not as easy as
a five minute job so I've had to shelve that idea.
Anyone got any solutions (and no, I don't want to
change to Unix to solve the problem!)
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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| 680.8 | | FORSAN::FRENCHS | Semper in excernere | Tue Aug 31 1993 13:24 | 4 |
| I already get the ones I actually want Some of the Radio amateur groups didn't
appear. It is the speed I am really after, which NNTP2 gives me.
Simon
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| 680.9 | Oh ... and whats the load on your VMS machine like? | DECUK::les | The Software Lifeguard | Tue Aug 31 1993 18:12 | 49 |
| >(since a few experts seem to being replying).
:-)
>I'm currently using DECUK news server and the version of
>VNEWS I'm using has for a second time refused to add new
>groups saying "too many new groups". Not only that, its
>takes around 20 minutes for VNEWS to go through the
>NEWSRC file every time I start it up. This is just too
>long and consequently I have not posted anything for
>months.
I'm not familiar with VNEWS, however, I did see something about this
in the News Backbone conference (I didn't read the string, but I
belive it was to do with performance problems on VNEWS). Do you have
the latest version of VNEWS? (CLOVAX::VNEWS I think is the conference)
>I'm currently running VNEWS in batch mode overnight to
>read the groups I'm following and I've tried hacking
>a bit of DCL to post via batch but its not as easy as
>a five minute job so I've had to shelve that idea.
decuk is a large, heavily loaded machine. News is just on of the many
jobs it does. Many of the performance problems we get are due to
unfinished DECnsr backups from the overnight runs. Other problems are
down to network link between Basingstoke and Reading being an Internet
Portal for IP, which is a hopeless underconfiguration. Are you using
IP, BTW, or DECnet?
>Anyone got any solutions (and no, I don't want to
>change to Unix to solve the problem!)
Shame ... mxrn is just sooo nice :-)
BTW: We currently have these rec.radio.amateur groups on line
rec.radio.amateur.misc 0000045331 0000000001 y
rec.radio.amateur.packet 0000006218 0000000001 y
rec.radio.amateur.policy 0000004757 00001 y
rec.radio.amateur 0000000008 00001 y
rec.radio.amateur.antenna 0000000707 0000000001 y
rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc 0000000230 0000000001 y
rec.radio.amateur.equipment 0000000504 0000000001 y
rec.radio.amateur.homebrew 0000000567 0000000001 y
rec.radio.amateur.space 0000000200 0000000001 y
Which ones are we missing?
...Les...
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| 680.10 | | TRUCKS::BUSHEN_P | Reproduced without protection | Tue Aug 31 1993 18:31 | 14 |
| >
>If you let me know which groups are missing, then i'll be happy to add
>them. Provided they're not in the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
>heirarchy, which are of course highly illegal to receive or transmit
>in this country.
>
gawn Les - we won't tell anyone!!!
and can you get rid of some of the extra 4000 ish groups
DECUK is _really_ slow
Paul.
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| 680.11 | | CSC32::S_MAUFE | this space for rent | Wed Sep 01 1993 00:00 | 6 |
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I wouldn't have thought using NNTP2 is such a bad thing, Colorado where
the machine is is 7 hours behind the UK, so largely idling when you're
all reading news groups,...
Simon
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| 680.12 | | FORSAN::FRENCHS | Semper in excernere | Wed Sep 01 1993 09:21 | 22 |
| The radio related groups that I try to follow are shown below. This is just 14
grouos out of 43 that I subscribe to. It is the speed that NNTPD2 gives me that
I am interested in.
BTW Les, alt.pic.WHAT? I dodn't remember seeing those on NNTPD2 :-)
Thanks,
Simon
dec.notes.personal.hamradio: 1-11138
rec.ham-radio.swap: 1-2237
rec.radio.amateur.equipment: 1-507
rec.radio.swap: 1-7791
rec.ham-radio: 1-32839
alt.radio.scanner: 1-7474
rec.radio.shortwave: 1-26663
rec.radio.amateur.policy: 1-5436
rec.radio.amateur.packet: 1-7261
su.org.ham-radio: 1-60
rec.ham-radio.packet: 1-5615
rec.radio.amateur.misc: 1-45690
rec.radio.scanner:
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| 680.13 | | TRUCKS::BUSHEN_P | Reproduced without protection | Wed Sep 01 1993 14:07 | 17 |
| >>Anyone got any solutions (and no, I don't want to
>>change to Unix to solve the problem!)
>
>Shame ... mxrn is just sooo nice :-)
>
>
mxrn has been ported to VMS (VMS forever !!!!)
and damn fine it is too
much better than VNEWS
although it still takes ages to start up it reconnects and rescans
automatically so I start it up at 8:30 ready for when I get in
Paul.
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| 680.14 | Hmmmm | DECUK::les | The Software Lifeguard | Thu Sep 02 1993 10:46 | 26 |
| >dec.notes.personal.hamradio: 1-11138
>rec.ham-radio.swap: 1-2237
>rec.radio.amateur.equipment: 1-507
>rec.radio.swap: 1-7791
>rec.ham-radio: 1-32839
>alt.radio.scanner: 1-7474
>rec.radio.shortwave: 1-26663
>rec.radio.amateur.policy: 1-5436
>rec.radio.amateur.packet: 1-7261
>su.org.ham-radio: 1-60
>rec.ham-radio.packet: 1-5615
>rec.radio.amateur.misc: 1-45690
>rec.radio.scanner:
We have all these groups.
The article numbers are generated locally and are server dependent.
If you want a quicker server with less groups try betty.uvo.dec.com,
its being configured to be a fast local news server for viables, it
won't carry the huge overhead of the geographic and university groups
that decuk carries by default. We can't cut the number of groups that
decuk carries because its one of the main news relay points into
Europe from the US.
...Les...
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