Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers.

[Daniel M. <xt@nm.ru>]

>So my question to you is: why are there 12,000 unread articles in that
>group?  I'm suspecting that you don't intend to read them all...
>

Usually I don't follow daily discussions in newsgroups closely. Instead,
I fetch all headers from a group and browse through them,
reading old posts that catch my interest. But sooner or later I would
catch on those ones skipped previously, or get back to those already 
read  - this is like a 'cookbook' or a reference: you don't read everything 
from the beginning to the end, but use it to glean the immediately 
useful information or to refresh your memory.

For example, there are more then 160000 articles in linux.debian.user
(on gmane's newsserver). Obviously, with the current summary
generating speed it is impractical to try and read it with Gnus :(.

Daniel.