Re: ping blueworldhosting.com

Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> posted:

 
My apologies, I know I have seen your e-mails, but have not replied. I have
been beyond overwhelmed with life and work this year and the last few months
have been the worst.
 
As long as you are not allowing others to post using an account I've provided,
I do not care how you access the spool. My only other concern would be
excessive consumption of resources with XPAT, but I can't say I've noticed any
issues, though I haven't logged into the spool server directly in probably 6
months.

Thanks Jesse, I hope next year is more peaceful!

All posting from my gateway goes through eternal-september.  I don't even
have an account on your server, I'm just reading from it anonymously.

I don't have many users so far, but I have tried to code the XPAT search
so that it will not cause excessive load. It starts by querying a block
of 10000 article numbers, then keeps doubling the block size until it finds
at least a screenful (30) of results. So a query for something silly like
'*' will just return the first 10000 and then stop.  The code for this is at
https://chiselapp.com/user/cmacleod/repository/newsgrouper/file?name=scripts/newsgetter&ci=tip
- search for 'xpat'.

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Colin Macleod ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://cmacleod.me.uk

I see you're one of those boring people who empty
the crumb tray *before* the toaster catches fire :-)