[Pan-users] testers needed -- and if you use alt.binaries, you *want* to try this...

[Charles Kerr]

I've just landed some huge changes into CVS that does some very dramatic 
things to large binaries newsgroups:

* Much, much smaller memory footprint:
  A group with 133,000 articles now eats 19 meg instead of 63 meg!

* Big groups thread faster and show up in the header pane MUCH faster.

* The data files in ~/.pan/servername/ roughly 50% smaller.

I've been playing with it for a few days now and these gains seem to 
have no downside, so if anyone else wants to give it a spin, I'd very 
much like to get more people testing this out.

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cheers,
Charles