On 15 May 1998, Hugo Embrechts wrote: > 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. Precaching can have a very beneficial effect on bandwidth - and does both here and on downstream sites. Simply run newshound on your top 100 newsgroups out of peak bandwidth hours (11pm-5am works well in most cases). AB