Hactar wrote, in <a5tfb5-n8e.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:08:01 GMT:
> In article <9mh9u31r3an8m3ab7uqfd0l06ifg2755qs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Peter Boulding wrote, in <5d69u3pqs4t4d3bja306e2kbolsucftp3i@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:31:32 +0000:
> >
> > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:55:56 +0000, Nick Spalding <spalding@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote in
> > > <pah2u31u0cgep8q6hrsi1i9orbtm4dbo38@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> > >
> > > >> (Note to anyone choosing to sign up with motzarella: don't try to
use their
> > > >> server immediately upon receipt of the e-mail confirming user
name and
> > > >> password; wait an hour or so before reconfiguring your news
client.)
> > > >
> > > >How long do you have to wait for that email? They accepted my
> > > >registration around 2pm GMT and I haven't seen it yet.
> > >
> > > Did it get sorted?
> >
> > It did, the email came the following day and as you found it wouldn't
> > immediately connect but I left it alone for a couple of hours and it
> > finally did. It seems to have excellent completion, marginally better
> > than any other free server, and > 2 months retention. It sometimes
hangs
> > fire on connection but gets there in the end.
> >
> > Comparative stats for 28 days:
> >
> > <fixed pitch>
> > alt.fan.cecil-adams
> > Merge IOL NIN APN NDD ALB AIO MOZ
> > Total 13435 13343 13311 13434 13288 13295 10898 13297
> > Avg. 480 477 475 480 475 475 389 475
> > 99.32% 99.08% 99.99% 98.91% 98.96% 81.12%
98.97%
> >
> > IOL is my ISP's server
> > NIN is news.individual.net €10 per year
> > APN is rebadged Easynews $2.95 per month
> > NDD is news.datemas.de free
> > ALB is news.albasani.net free
> > AIO is news.aioe.org free
> > MOZ is news.motzarella.org free
> > Merge is all of them merged together.
>
> When I tried to do that [1], it would grab everything (in the
> newsgroups I said to grab) from each server, and then merge them,
> discarding the duplicates. What I want is: download everything there
from
> #1. Download only what's missing from #2. Download only what's still
> missing from #3, etc. Is there something that acts like this?
>
> [1] I forget what I used, either "suck" or "leafnode".
That is just how Agent 3.x or later works. For any newsgroup you can
define the order of priority of servers to read from, and it uses the
later ones just for fill-in.
All the figures in those stats are produced by a program I wrote years ago
which reads the database files from seven (at the moment, it is
configurable in a .ini file) separate instances, each addressing a
different server, of an old Agent 2.0 for which I know the detailed format
of the files. I and a couple of other readers of
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent worked it out back in 1996.
The format changed a lot with version 3.x and a bit more with 4.x and I
have never bothered to figure out how they work now. The incentive for
our researches then was to enable us to write little utilities to do
various things that Agent now does natively.
--
Nick Spalding
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