[news.software.nntp] nntpxfer and Cnews

zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (04/07/90)

>When it is used with Cnews, nntpxfer should rfc822ize message id's before
>it tries to look them up.  If it doesn't do this, it spends a lot of time
>
>This puppy is slow.  It took about 3 hours to fetch 4K articles, and it

I have some fixes for these things that will hopefully be included in a 
future nntp release.  Until then, copies are available on request.