Re: How is Yarn Really used?

From: Mikael Ståldal (d96-mst-ingen-reklam@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:12:47 +0100

In article <199712131917.LAA09137@ccnet3.ccnet.com>,
theo@ccnet3.ccnet.com wrote:

>It seems impractical to me to download huge amounts of data, just
>to select from them offline on a random basis.

That isn't as impractical as it may seem. If the goal is to reduce on-lin=
e
time (it is for me), then it's probably more effective to download
everything unattended and select offline than select while being online.

This isn't true for newsgroups with extremly large messages (>20 KB, such
as *.binaries.*).

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