Re: Gnus and NoCeM.

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

Ken McGlothlen writes:
> On 15 Jul 1999, Colin Rafferty provided the following enlightenment:
> | Ken McGlothlen writes:

> | >     1.	Is there a way to run NoCeM asynchronously?

> | (gnus-demon-add-nocem)

> One question, though.  Do I still have to set gnus-use-nocem?  

Yes.

> If I can avoid that looong startup NoCeM check, this solution would
> be *perfect*.

Since you have a DSL line, can't you just keep your emacs job running
all the time, and always have the nocem stuff being updated (while
you're not doing real work)?

> One more question:  How *much* faster is nnml than nnfolder?  

I can't quantify, but I would have to say "much".  Entering a group is 
going to be much faster, since the .overview file is much smaller and
easier to parse than a mail folder.

I imagine that reading individual articles may be a little slower
since it's opening files, but you won't have this huge folder open in
your emacs consuming all that memory.

> And is there a convenient way of converting nnml back to nnfolder or
> nnmbox format?

Nothing convenient.  Only the hand-made way that I described in my
previous message.

-- 
Colin