On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:25 PM Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
On 5/24/24 3:37 PM, admin@bclug.ca wrote:
Is nntp common enough these days to be a useful default runner?
I disabled it in mine when I noticed it, but it seems (IMHO) a waste of resources (yet another Python interpreter running) for a fairly edge case of mailing list <--> nntp transits.
You raise an interesting point. By default, the runner runs, but if there are no lists gating to usenet, its queue is always empty and it mostly sleeps between waking, finding its queue empty and going back to sleep. A more significant use of resources is every (default) 5 minutes spawning
mailman gatenewswhich goes through a startup process and then looks at every list figuring out there's nothing to do.We could default mailman.cfg to contain
start: noin the runner.nntp section so people would need to enable it if they wanted it. What do others think?
I last heard of usenet in the late 90's. Do they still exist, even?
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