From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73973 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving Gnus speed Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:48:19 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <798w12h5zi.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289335754 14212 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2010 20:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:49:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22341@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 09 21:49:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFv7o-0000Vh-J4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PFv7h-0005Pp-Ne; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:48:57 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PFv7g-0005Pa-5O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:48:56 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PFv7e-00013t-BD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:48:56 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PFv7c-0005Z6-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:48:52 +0100 Original-Received: by fxm3 with SMTP id 3so1324793fxm.17 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:48:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:organization :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=VUz4EN7gwVfh+Qb4MKMRSewGvrot9XJmK/r42TQwbVE=; b=bx2z9Te0e5iA3+C5MeBuGe2+8ahQsp0LbG6QcSBENVbVnPEhyhg7ILmqv8yomEmuh7 WV8BtHlCM9jpletZfyNLQJ/QzkvNnsKTiHcOdcH3J+e5qwu8+pXi+opNfpIkl8GVNmBp ftFc3poOQKxWwW3u+p2DF+yYzAHQ5JyAfBCFE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=a5ra5w7r04aPskg38nKAyNQy8powIT31End1/3iCUOCv9aG29kvr66tWoW7Ddioyq1 05svrPYP/PnkJmRozsZ8ZOEundtRbuL5O1oQLLBscnmfcPw/+5qij0rxK8QGT8NT8xsZ urY/IdylRMtsQ54xwhdFPuDinM9s8Km7zN9u0= Original-Received: by 10.223.79.13 with SMTP id n13mr5582894fak.139.1289335701681; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:48:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k4sm934938faa.32.2010.11.09.12.48.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:48:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Francis Moreau's message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:52:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73973 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > Didier Verna writes: > > [...] > >> >> In fact, I would really like if we had serious statistics about Gnus >> usage, and I wouldn't be surprised if people read more mails than news >> with it. >> > > I think you're still wrong. You would be surprised to see how much > people use Gnus for news and a seperate mail reader (like VM, Mew, > trn4...) for mails. That's certainly my experience from talking to people in #emacs irc channel. Most people there think Gnus is an unwieldy and slow monster for mail and prefer to use Mutt or something similar - Despite adverts to the contrary most still hang on to the belief that Gnus is useless for IMAP too ;)