Re: uqwk question
Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:06:40 -0700
"Steven M. Sawczyn" <sms@sawnet.com> wrote:
|
|Hi, recently, I installed uqwk 1.8 on my Linux machine which is connected
|via a 56 K line to the net. When retrieving news, however, I notice that
|UQWK takes forever before it starts retrieving the news. Example:
|
|I start UQWK
|
|wait at least five minutes
|"uqwk alt.news.group"
|
|Wait a few more minutes which is acceptable as I retrieve my news via an
|NNTP server.
|
|>from then on, the groups go normally. Nevertheless, why do I experience
|such a long delay before the first group is retrieved?
|
|Just some more info: This problem never occurs if I rename my .newsrc file,
|forcing UQWK to only get mail. Also, I must wait at least four minutes per
|article when posting with UQWK, again this problem does not occur with mail.
I seem to wait a long time posting on a SCO Unix machine. Somedays it is
almost instant, somedays I will have to wait 1-3 minutes.
I only experience pauses when getting news when our news server is overloaded
so I think your problem has to do with your news server, not uqwk.
Gary