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Some MT-NewsWatcher settings that rarely need to be changed, or
that are only of interest to system administrators, are stored
in a 'ThrD' resource in the application, or in Preferences files.
To edit these settings, simply open MT-NewsWatcher with ResEdit,
and open the 'ThrD' resource. A template is provided. The entries
in this resource are described below.
You can also copy 'ThrD' resources into Preferences files, where they
will override the settings in the application.
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DNEWS servers seem to dislike news clients attempting to make
several connections in quick succession, and will refuse all but
the first connection. To work around this, MT-NewsWatcher can
insert a small delay between each open request. The first entry
in the 'ThrD' resource specfies this delay, in 60ths of a second.
Use a value of 60 or more if you use a DNEWS server and get
errors when trying to open multiple groups at the same time.
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This setting used to control the maximum number of news server
connections that would be opened. It has been superceded by the
control in the "Server options" panel of the Preferences.
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This setting used specifies the size of the thread pool that MT-NewsWatcher
creates on startup. Each concurrent action runs in a separate thread, so
this effectively controls the maximum number of simultaneous tasks. The
default is 20; you may want to reduce this to free up memory, since each
task in the pool requires approx. 24K of memory.
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The next three entries in the resource are used to specify the port
numbers used for NNTP, SMTP and FTP. Unless you know what you are
doing, you should not change these.
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This setting specifies whether MT-NewsWatcher schedules threads
using a custom scheduling algorithm, which should improve the
response time and cooperation with network activity. You should
not change this.
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