Hi, > I believe this is to try to discourage people from using this feature > gratuitously. Fetching the messages individually will probably use a > fraction more bandwidth than the mbox version. I'd expect the CPU would > if be more for fetching individually too.
I didn't think of it like this. I thought that fetching mbox archives would be _more_ resource intensive than NNTP because NNTP is to put it, the 'normal' operation mode for Gmane. But I will take your word because you know more! > I would talk to Lars about this - he's a friendly guy, if sometimes > rather busy. He's the man who actually runs the show so will be able > to give you the definitive word on what Gmane would prefer you to do. That's a good idea and I will do that. > However, he said a few months ago that "62K articles isn't a lot": Well, it's just not 62K but I think it will touch 200K easily :) > I do know that IP addresses and ranges sometimes get blocked for > fetching excessive numbers of articles via NNTP, though I'm not sure how > many counts as excessive. But your current approach might be viewed as > abusive. Actually NNTP seems to work _very well_ for us and there have been no disconnects or other problems. I think the best way would be to get in touch with Lars and see what he has to say about this. Thanks for the pointers! -- Sukhbir _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
