From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 22:34:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA15752 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 22:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pelican.com (pelican.com [134.24.4.62]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA15746 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 22:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by pelican.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #10) id m0tZXdm-0000SMC; Mon, 8 Jan 96 22:34 PST Message-Id: From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) Subject: Re: Would like your opinion To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 22:34:37 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Dillon" at Jan 8, 96 07:38:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael Dillon writes: > On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Pete Carah wrote: > > In article <199601052232.JAA17229@imp.fl.net.au> adf writes: > > (and encourage them to go over to psl, which is much easier on the server, > > and easier for them to control too.) (note that regular news readers never > Lycos and Webcrawler don't know about psl, Archie thinks it's some MIDI > music stuff.... any pointers? It may well also be midi stuff; the news one came from alt.sources so probably isn't indexed anywhere. It's a newsrc driven version of slurp, written in perl. Slurp uses message-id lookups at the server end, which taxes the server due to the high volume of dbz lookups. I got one copy directly from alt.sources and the other came from some ftp site (but I don't know which.) They differ subtly and I haven't actually tried either since I'm transitioning over to a 'normal' newsfeed and can leave slurp going for a while more. -- Pete