Re: OT: Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??

[Brian Morrison]

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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:13:58 -0800 in address@hidden
Eric Ortega <address@hidden> wrote:

> ObPan:  I believe the maximum number of per-server connections is
> hard-coded into the preferences dialog with a max of four.  Is there
> much logic behind this?  Way back in the day I used to tweak this in
> one of the Pan config files to eight or so, but I had the same problem
> that Duncan had in that everytime I went to the configs it would
> revert.  I did not get so sly as to write a script like he did and
> just went with max four.  Why four?  Is it a good newsreader thing?

Yes, it's part of GNKSA I think, the reason being that if you had many
streams simultaneously it could DoS the server's other users.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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