From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3562 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cor Gest Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Persuade me to use gnus (please) Date: 01 Mar 2004 12:26:51 +0000 Organization: Clsnet Linux Systems Message-ID: <87llmkeos4.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl> References: <87k725jcwt.fld@barrow.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669634 19417 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:24 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Sender: cor@cleopatra.clsnet.nl Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-GPG-ID: pub 1024/65AF7A91 cor@clsnet.nl X-GPG-KEY: http://pki.surfnet.nl X-Favorite-Beer: Pint of Kilkenny X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Mar 2004 13:16:01 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.183.106 Original-X-Trace: 1078143361 news.xs4all.nl 559 [::ffff:213.84.183.106]:3626 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3703 Original-Lines: 30 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3703 Tue Jan 17 17:32:24 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3562 Archived-At: Some hopefully ableminded and witty human entity disguising itself as: floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote : > 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. 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 -- Artificial intelligence has no cure for human stupidity (setq reply-to (concatenate 'string "Cor Gest " "")) (defvar wannabe "s0 u w4Nn4b3 4 h4x0r") http://www.clsnet.nl/tuxoharata.html No, I will NOT fix your Computer http://www.geekgrrrl.nl