From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Cc: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Loss of ticks and marks
Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:02:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iub9s90g.fsf@hubert.wuh.wustl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva's message of "06 Apr 1999 18:35:02 -0300"
Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
> On Apr 5, 1999, Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> wrote:
>
> > Entering a large group does in fact have a well-defined interrupt
> > point.
>
> When I still don't have the faintest idea about how long it will take
> to enter the group.
Especially since the number given at that prompt may have little
relation to the actual number of articles there.
What are the actual problems involved making this operation
interruptable? (Maybe I just missed an explanation in previous
messages... I'll look.) It sure seems like a feature people would
like, and I'd say it's worth some effort.
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
Memory fault - where am I?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-06 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-21 7:59 Alexandre Oliva
1999-03-28 16:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-29 0:56 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-02 13:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-04 10:57 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-05 15:28 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-04-05 21:24 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-05 21:34 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-04-05 22:08 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-04-06 21:35 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-04-06 22:02 ` Alan Shutko [this message]
1999-04-13 7:08 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-04-17 6:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-17 20:27 ` Alexandre Oliva
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