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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> In some groups, I keep a large history of old messages.  Therefore, it
> can be very slow to enter such a group.

What's slow?  I think fetching headers is not too bad, so if you just
mark the old messages as read, that should do the trick.
-- 
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