Re: Gnus faces

[Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>]

"AS" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

AS> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> 
>>>> IMHO, I'd have an inheritance hierarchy with a top-level "abstract"
>>>> (i.e., not really used face) gnus-group, that is specialized by
>>>> emptyness, then backend, and finally by levels.  (I think that in
>>>> times of fast internet connections, the levels are the least
>>>> important thing.
>>> 
>>> Why do you think that levels have something to do with network
>>> speed?
>> 
>> Isn't that the intention of levels, like, fetch only my very
>> important mailboxes, e.g., with a level of 1.

AS> But what does this have to do with network speed?

AS> Andreas.

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I think the idea was 'everyone has fast internet nowadays so fetching
only some groups (those with high levels) is obsolete/of little
importance'. So the relevance of levels does have to do with network
speed.
However, I disagree, as I'm *not* always on a fast network and
especially because levels help to address _server side_ network speed
issues. And those are still really bad especially for some news
servers.

-- 
Philipp Haselwarter