andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) (11/04/87)
Recently we had the unpleasant experience of having the uucp link to our newsfeed go down for 3 days. When we finally got through again, the spooled news batches started coming through. After the smoke cleared, we had received 4028 new articles that one day! Unbatching the 47 files (~50K each) took over 4 hours! Thank God we unbatch news at 3:00 am... Andrew