In article <gNwzxsZA/1UB090yn@sco.com>,
Gary H <garyh@sco.COM> wrote:
> "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 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.
If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I last read uqwk's
source), uqwk first retrieves a list of all the newsgroups on your
server, and only then will it start downloading news. Since that
list can be a few hundred K, it can take a while.
Why it would want that newsgroup list every time is beyond me, but I
have no doubt there is some perverted idea behind it. =)
Galactus
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