Re: Persuade me to use gnus (please)

[Cor Gest <cor@clsnet.nl>]

Some hopefully ableminded and witty human entity
disguising itself as: floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote :

> 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.

You can if gnus is operated in agent-mode.

> 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.

That is what agent-mode was invented for,
it only gets header-info, you tick wanted mesgs, and all others will be
set 'read'.


cor

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