Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers.

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Daniel M. <xt@nm.ru> writes:

>> So my question to you is: why are there 12,000 unread articles in that
>> group?  I'm suspecting that you don't intend to read them all...
>
> Usually I don't follow daily discussions in newsgroups closely. Instead,
> I fetch all headers from a group and browse through them,
> reading old posts that catch my interest. But sooner or later I would
> catch on those ones skipped previously, or get back to those already 
> read  - this is like a 'cookbook' or a reference: you don't read everything 
> from the beginning to the end, but use it to glean the immediately 
> useful information or to refresh your memory.

I see.  This means that it is a one-time only thing, until you were
able to catch up on those articles.

Note that you can use scoring, or adaptive scoring, to keep down the
number of articles you read, once you have started reading the group.

But for the initial part, I don't know of a way to make it faster with
Gnus.  As far as I'm concerned, myself, I just hit c before I start
reading a group, because reading (even skimming) 12,000 articles is
out of the question for me.

Kai