On Sat, 07 Jun 1997 16:48:36 +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > >> What kind of insane news-reader insists on using HEAD when XOVER is >> available? > >Quite a few, unfortunately. On one of the busy nntpcache servers here, >1/3 of the files in each group directory are _head files. (Some of our readers are even more insane, and have almost 50% in some groups. Other groups are better balanced.) >I agree that it would be good to get rid of the single file per article, >but I think it would be better to spend some time finding a general >solution to this, instead of concentrating on the _head files. > Maybe this would work... What about the fact that many articles in the spool also have a HEAD file? Why not remove the HEAD if the article file exists, or skip the header from the article file? In many cases the HEAD files are 90% the size of the article file... (20 header lines, and 2 lines of article).
