This problem was already on this list several month ago (posted by
another person): When I start Oort Gnus or press 'g' in the Groups
Buffer, it needs several seconds to read the active file. Someone
mailed a small patch to this list which solved this problem and put
it into my local CVS where the change version stayed over the
month. As I see now, this patch never made its way into the official
CVS, so this problem still exists.

What does this patch (attached to this email) change and why has it
never been applied to the current CVS?