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mmc@maruska.dyndns.org (Michal Maruška) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> I'm looking for some kind of interface that will be a little more
>> fleetfooted in massive mail/news groups.  In my experience and without
>> major tweaking or the like, I've found gnus to be poorly suited for
>> very large groups.  Even just a few thousand messages (under 4,000)
>
> i think i have got the same problem.  Do you mean you would want to store the
> headers in a (SQL) database and have the ordering(+threading) done by the DB
> backend?

I never really thought about trying something like that.  Sounds like
it would be smart way to go.  But a trifle complicated.

I was just speaking of trying some kind of tool, maybe nmh, that
doesn't try to do so much.  But only in large groups, because most of
the time I want all gnus goodies.