On 6 Apr 1998, Matt Ranney wrote: > away. I haven't heard any complaints from the other users though, who > all use Netscape as their newsreader. Presumably this is because when > they are done "reading news", they close the newsreader window, which > dumps the connection. Can anyone confirm or disprove that netscape still opens a new connection for every single message retrieved (and closes without a quit)? It was a major pain in the *** under INN, because forking off a new nnrpd is expensive in CPU terms. How does nntpcache handle such abuse? AB
