Re: gnus-group-get-new-nnml

[Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu>]

>>>>> On 21 Jan 1998 15:40:11 -0500, Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> said:

Colin> I have 88 mail groups (all at level 2 (nntp is level 3)).
Colin> Doing a '2 g' is equivalent to doing M-g on each group, each of
Colin> which does an nnml-request-scan.

Colin> That's slow on an NFS mounted spool.  I don't even want to
Colin> imagine the costs of POP.

Doesn't matter...  nnml-request-scan scan's the first one, downloads
*all* of the pop's stuff and stores the incoming file, splits it and
delivers it all on the first call to it.  After that, it probably
polls the pop demon but its always empty, so its fairly fast...  Not a 
problem.  I don't have 88 groups, only about 20 or so, but I don't
have a lag time problem, after the inital download...

Colin> I needed something that would do a single nnml-request-scan,
Colin> and then update the appropriate groups lines.

That would be better I suppose (actually, its what I thought it was
doing!  I hadn't noticed it was doing multiple calls to the pop demon, 
but your right, it probably is)

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