IT: Paging the Usenet-isti

I've noticed that UKRM seems to take a lot longer to update than many
other NGs. If I have just one message to fetch, uit takes several
seconds of furious (cable) modem activity. Given that a Usenet message
is usually a few lines of text with a couple of dozen lines of headter
text, just what the hell is all that activity about?

 

X-Trace: newsfe4-win.ntli.net gives the clue

The cheesey server was being a **** last week and I flipped back to
Virgin/NTL. Very slow at times. I imagine the servers are very old and not
getting any support. Once they die I expect they will kill them off for
good like most other pikey ISPs.

NTL carry binaries so I imagine a lot of the bandwidth is taken up by this.

I'm back on cheesey now

 

At a guess the relatively huge volume of posts means taking time to
sort out what has and hasn't already been retrieved.

 

*ding*

 

The question was more general, rather than specifically to the recent
service, though that sort of triggered it.

I may follow soon.

 

Aah. I had a vague idea it was NG volume related.

 

"MOVE TO A LESS PIKEY SERVER"

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Seconded. There might also be an issue with stored messages. Purging
the group may help [1]

[1] In oh *so* many ways.

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