Re: gnus with leafnode

[Pieter Wenk <pwenk@urbanet.ch>]

>I don't think Lars makes it intentionally difficult.  I think he tries very
>hard to make it useful and powerful.  The typical news/mail reader these
>days is like a black box with a pretty face.  Gnus is more like a master
>craftman's toolbox that has a gazillion tools packed away neatly inside.
>There is a learning curve.  It takes some time to learn how to use the
>tools.  I am only a novice myself but trust me on this: once you learn what
>you can do with gnus, you will never again be satisfied with an `ordinary'
>news/mail reader.

Yes. I was indeed used using gnus as NR...Now after the installation
of leafnode I just would like to use this excellent NR again. 
As you said, once you get used to it...it's unlikely to become satis-
fied with an ordinary NR...

I made a fes tests with Netscape....this is now working without
problems. With "localhost". Ther servers (I have two), are in my
/etc/news/leafnode/config.

Now is it possible, that gnus will need several minutes lets
say up to a 1/2 hour in order to read ther active file...in which
is empty ? /var/spool/news/active.read has nothing inside. 

Is this normal ? 

Regards
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