alanb@manawatu.gen.nz (Alan Brown) writes:
> > > So you only notice the problem of missing articles if you read a group
> > > that you have not read for a long time (or not at all) ? Otherwise
> > > you only see the new (recent) xover lines.
> >
> > No, you only have to be away for just a bit longer than the time it takes to
> > expire an article on the remote news server. For some groups and some servers,
> > this means 1 day :)
>
> If the group's being regularly read, using Newshound to precache is
> a viable and worthwhile option.
Precaching articles is not usefull for us. With our newsproxy we serve
a university (with more than 25 000 students) covering all major
faculties. Precaching would have a very bad effect on bandwidth.
Hugo Embrechts
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