From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 12:51:32 CDT
Bernie Cosell <bernie@fantasyfarm.com> writes:
> *THAT'S* what this is all about, and doing the email-style decoding is
> just too much of PITA on the critical-path for article handling. That
> also accounts for the disconnect between the design groups --- it is a
> 'ho hum' matter for email, but a critical one for news.
It's not clear to me that this is true. Decoding is not particularly
expensive. I'd be more worried about the implementation complexity and
the need for a general upgrade of news server software than the speed
issues.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>