From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58347 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers. Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:57:36 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <86smab61dr.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <4knii01atsa54v7dm0gs6taep3v1uoglj7@4ax.com> <86u0us3mrf.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <868yc43fn0.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093424305 13345 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2004 08:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6888@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 25 10:58:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bztbc-00041Y-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:58:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BztbQ-0002Pk-00; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BztbJ-0002Pe-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:57:49 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BztbJ-0006gm-6r for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:57:49 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0003A004B for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:57:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BztbG-0008Ob-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:57:46 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1093424266 32276 139.4.37.213 (25 Aug 2004 08:57:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:57:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NrNgyNGXQc4aAd1FJpT5I6kCNfM= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58347 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58347 Daniel M. 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