[3291] in SIPB bug reports
speed of NetNews...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGuire)
Thu Nov 12 11:27:40 1992
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:27:43 -0500
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: smcguire@mit.edu (Scott McGuire)
Hi,
I hope this is the right place to send this message, since it's not exactly
a bug. And I'm sure this is not the only message of this type you've
received.
Reading NetNews these days is rather slow. I think I spend more time
waiting for the next message to appear that I do reading the next message.
Is there anything I can do to speed this process up, or is something in the
works over there?
I realize that probably it's slow because everybody at MIT is trying to
read netnews off of one machine, and maybe there isn't any budget to
upgrade the machine/get other machines; is there anyone specific to
encourage to allocate more money to this sort of thing? Because I think
it's an important resource but it's getting difficult to use.
Anyway, a word about my setup if it would be helpful: I currently read
news from a Macintosh connected to the internet by Ethernet with
"Newswatcher" (I specify the news machine to be "news.mit.edu") - I have
tried reading news using rrn on Athena too but it was about the same speed.
I'm also familiar with "Nuntius" on the Mac, which backgrounds a little
better, but I prefer Newswatcher.
Thanks very much,
--Scott McGuire / smcguire@mit.edu
Mac Support / Sloan School
