bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) (02/07/91)
Obviously, both _sending_ a news feed via NNTP and allowing users to read remotely with rrn or equavalent put a load on the NNTP host. I don't imagine that the load they inflict is the same -- different operations are involved in many parts of the code. (Of course the receiving end will have very different costs for the two methods, but I'm only asking about the _provider_.) Does anyone have statistics which can show the relative cost of remote reading versus a full news feed? I guess the best way to gauge it would be in terms of the time per article transferred via either method. Then to arrive at a locally relevant figure, I can look at the number of articles in a full feed versus some estimate of the number of articles which would be read by the people here. Does the news software (B|C News, etc.) have any effect? Thanks for any help you can give. -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365