From: floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson)
Subject: Re: Persuade me to use gnus (please)
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:32:02 -0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k725jcwt.fld@barrow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnc45649.oep.ylee@pobox.com>
Yeechang Lee <ylee@pobox.com> wrote:
> speed difference does not matter much in many contexts, it's quite
> noticeable at certain times, such as when entering a newsgroup with
> more than a few thousand unread messages.
...
> solution a) also means that I will not be able to read mail while
> emacs is, say, pulling in a five thousand-message group.
I'm curious, do you often want to access 5000 messages?
I can't imagine doing that over a network link (granted, I have
a modem connection, not a high speed one) as opposed to using
google to sort them and supply me with a shorter list.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <slrnc45649.oep.ylee@pobox.com>
2004-03-01 6:32 ` Floyd L. Davidson [this message]
2004-03-01 12:26 ` Cor Gest
[not found] ` <yoij7jy5fatq.fsf@frealaf.dd.chalmers.se>
[not found] ` <vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-877jy4iw3w.fsf@gothgoose.net>
2004-03-02 10:52 ` Jesse F. Hughes
[not found] ` <vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-87ptbv2hgq.fsf@gothgoose.net>
2004-03-02 22:09 ` Jesse F. Hughes
[not found] ` <873c8qtopc.fsf@xengine.softforge.ods.org>
[not found] ` <878yii9hw1.fsf@phiwumbda.org>
2004-03-03 14:10 ` Glyn Millington
[not found] ` <vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-87k721hbig.fsf@gothgoose.net>
[not found] ` <v9hdx5o8qb.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
2004-03-04 18:56 ` Fonts (was: Persuade me to use gnus (please)) Marcus Frings
2004-03-04 21:16 ` Fonts Jesse F. Hughes
2004-03-11 18:24 ` Fonts Erik Arneson
[not found] ` <vita-brevis-breviter-in-brevi-finietur-mors-venit-velociter-quae-neminem-veretur-87u10s1rls.fsf@gothgoose.net>
[not found] ` <m3znajvutr.fsf@seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net>
2004-03-15 21:22 ` Fonts Marcus Frings
2004-03-07 18:04 ` Persuade me to use gnus (please) Raymond Scholz
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