Arabbit.264
net.misc
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!npois!rabbit!sjb
Wed Feb 24 17:45:39 1982
Re: Amount of news
You are assuming that news is constantly flowing into a
system.  In fact, some (most?  I have no info on numbers)
systems are polled at regular (as regular as can be...)
times instead of called as soon as one article is waiting
for it.

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