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Message-ID: <961231214256.AA3900@dojo>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 21:42:56 GMT
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Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: Mike O'Connor <mjo@dojo.mi.org>
Subject: Re: newbie question for a brand new site
References: <5aa3er$16s$1@scorpion.broadcom.com>
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@dojo.mi.org>
Organization: Sixth Congregational Church of Rodney
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In article <5aa3er$16s$1@scorpion.broadcom.com>,
John Sin <jsin@scorpion.broadcom.com> wrote:

:and my history file is about 14MB.  My log file shows something like the
:following:
:
:Dec 30 19:14:27 fortress innd: newsserver connected 15 streaming allowed
:Dec 30 19:14:27 fortress innd: newsserver:15 NCmode "mode stream" received
:Dec 30 19:14:37 fortress innd: newsserver:15 closed seconds 20 accepted 85 refused 0 rejected 0
:
:My question is, is this normal/typical?   I guess I had expected the
:connection to stay open longer and transfer more articles, at least
:initially.  Is there a bottleneck here that I am not aware of?

This is normal/typical.  What's going on is that fortress is connecting
with a news feeding mechanism like innxmit that doesn't maintain a
connection near-continuously.  Since you're getting only a limited 
amount of groups, you'll see a lot of what you see above.  
 
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 Michael J. O'Connor                                           mjo@dojo.mi.org
"I don't want the world.  I just want your half."        -They Might Be Giants