Re: [Pan-users] Re: Better processing of very large groups?

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-07-02 20:28, walt wrote:
[snip]
> The basic problem overwhelming usenet is that people are using it for file
> sharing, a purpose for which it was not intended and is not well suited.

Maybe (definitely!) not, but uuencode/decode have been around for a 
loooong time...

> But you knew that already :o)  It would be an interesting novelty for news
> servers to offer a well-compressed zipfile of article headers, say, for each
> calendar month or week.  

That's probably what giganews does with it's Accelerator Proxy.

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