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Subject: Re: [9fans] news reader
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:33:37 +0000
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> How do people use nntpfs(1) ?

i did start using it, but found it hideously slow to start up, as it
checks info on all newsgroups at startup (a quick "list newsgroups" on
our nntp server gives a 1.8MB file, listing 41045 groups, which took
about 10 minutes to download - it's on a slower link than our usual
net connection).

there is an acme client that uses nntpfs; again, i didn't get very far
with it for the slowness reason...

  cheers,
    rog.