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Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> writes:

> This could be his problem.  Phil - what was the backend for the
> group that caused your machine to eat itself?

nnml.  ;)

> Back in the (thankfully past) mists of time, when my XEmacs
> spool was just over 10000 messages, I was using a 32M Intel
> machine to read my mail.[1] It never took more than 2 El stops
> (5-10 minutes) for it to pop up the summary buffer.  This was
> with nnml.  Judging from your other posts, and from the
> symptoms you described, it sounds like you're still using nnmh.

Nope.  It took 30 minutes....  running nnml

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