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Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Doesn't the tty optimization help?  When expiring big groups over a
> modem, I only see every hundred (or so) 'Expring article 32423'.

I usually run Emacs under X, which flutters oodles when entering a
group on a fast machine.

> Also, couldn't the base64 decoder be a little bit more verbose?  Right
> now my Emacs hangs for minutes on bigish attachments. A `Decoding
> base64..........' message where the dot grows just like nntp would be
> very neat. Or should I just wait for a Emacs with built-in
> base64-decoding?

I think the latter is easier, since Emacs 20.4 will have the base64
things in the C layer.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen