From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3561 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Persuade me to use gnus (please) Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:32:02 -0900 Organization: __________ Message-ID: <87k725jcwt.fld@barrow.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669633 19414 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:24 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!HSNX.atgi.net!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0cMGUV+6mlUCgybEvUqFktGGMEU= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.124.156.252 Original-X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1078122771 209.124.156.252 (Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:32:51 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:32:51 EST Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3702 Original-Lines: 20 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3702 Tue Jan 17 17:32:24 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3561 Archived-At: Yeechang Lee 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 Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@barrow.com