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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: Getting articles asynchronously.....
Date: 15 Jan 1996 12:36:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2g2dh42lf.fsf@miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU's message of 15 Jan 1996 01:15:52 -0800

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:

Greg> There's a lot of real gains to be made here.  Gnus would be a
Greg> lot more useful if it didn't lock up Emacs while doing long
Greg> operations like listing groups, checking for bogus groups, or
Greg> entering a group (once took me over 30 minutes).

It's making less and less sense to me to have Gnus wait while reading
the NNTP active file at startup, with mail to be read and such.

Could the active file be read by a subprocess similar to the exmh-bg
mailchecker in exmh?

-- 
steve@miranova.com baur


  reply	other threads:[~1996-01-15 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-12-26  9:16 Patrick Audley
1995-12-26 14:18 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1995-12-26 20:57   ` Patrick Audley
1995-12-26 23:34     ` Stainless Steel Rat
1995-12-27  1:18   ` Felix Lee
1996-01-03  9:20     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-12-28  4:53   ` Mark W. Eichin
1995-12-28 13:35     ` Greg Stark
1996-01-15  9:15       ` Greg Stark
1996-01-15 20:36         ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-01-16 10:34           ` Ketil Z Malde
1996-01-16 11:05             ` Greg Stark
1996-01-16 13:05               ` Massimo Campostrini
     [not found]               ` <zqbn99ny@totally-fudged-out-message-id>
1996-01-17  2:51                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-01-17  2:51           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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