Re: Changing Default News Server

[Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk>]

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> However it works quite well for small groups. For large groups we are
> helped by the fact that the newsreading is done by a human (i.e.
> slow).
> If you a large group say recs.jobs.offered then most of the time
> either one of these is true:
> 
> 1. Only a few messages are 'read' (i.e. those you actually read).
> 2. Almost all are read and those that are unread are at the end
> (i.e. you have used Catchup).

Ok, I understand this, but the original question was whether it could be
done smoothless.  I still doubt this.

> P.S. How many articles does rec.jobs.offered have on your news server?

I assume you mean misc.jobs.offered:  It currently has 13817 articles,
the oldest (top one in Gnus) being dated July 10.  That's a bit
cheating, because the groups that are slaughtered at daimi are mainly
alt and rec (sometimes articles live less than 24 hours...)

(Starting Gnus on that group took one HELL of a time on this 2
processor/plenty of ram sparcstation 20, and this emacs currently eats
21 megs of ram because of it :-) )
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen
<URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~gnort/>  <URL:mailto:lars@rasmussen.org>