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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> 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.

I'm talking about the case where all messages are already marked as
read, and I want to enter the group.  If there is a several-thousand
message backlog of already-read messages in that group, it takes a huge
amount of time to construct the summary buffer.  For example, one such
group has 5670 old messages as of this posting.

Not fetching headers for most of this several-thousand message backlog
would speed things up immensely.


> --=20
> Ambibibentists unite!
>

--=20
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com