Other arguments aside, newshound can be used to cause nntpcache to "pre-cache" frequently read groups. -Brian On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Chris A. Mattingly wrote: > > Leafnode isn't completely transparent to end users (attempts to read an > > unread group give a "news will appear shortly" placeholder until the > > next sync with the server) and you need to kick off the process that > > syncs with the upstream servers yourself. > > I actually prefer this method. Every 20 minutes, it goes and fetches > all the new articles in only the groups I read. nntpcache wouldn't > fetch them until I tried to read them, thereby making the news reading > process slower. -- bmm@minder.net 1024/8C7C4DE9
