From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17275 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: many articles Date: 20 Sep 1998 22:26:12 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156005 32522 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:20:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA08972 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:27:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAF21390; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:26:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA10279 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:26:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA08952 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:26:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id WAA09506; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:26:13 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id WAA29692; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:26:12 +0200 Original-To: Phil Humpherys In-Reply-To: Phil Humpherys's message of "19 Sep 1998 21:05:11 -0600" Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070031 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.31) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17275 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17275 >>>>> On 19 Sep 1998, Phil Humpherys said: Phil> One soolution I can think of is to run gnus with an mh backend, Don't do that. Phil> and when I needto do something with these really large groups, I Phil> bail on [x]emacs and go straight mh. Then, I can always come Phil> back to xemacs later whenever I want. nnml is just like nnmh, only with .overview files ==> *much* faster! nnmh will need to read every file in the directory to assemble summary information, nnml just reads the .overview file. You could switch just that one group to nnmh. Or you could use MH on nnml folders, IF YOU TAKE CARE TO DO IT READ-ONLY. kai -- OOP: object oriented programming; OOPS: object oriented mistakes