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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?
From: |
Galen Boyer |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone? |
Date: |
21 Dec 2001 01:40:07 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, address@hidden wrote:
> 1) *Much* easier to configure and get running.
Gnus is notorious for causing one fits as a newbie.
> 2) Much faster overall (download time,
I don't know why this would be any faster based on the
downloading program.
> message display time,
Other than when Gnus needs to display htmlized messages, it is
very fast. I would assume the html slowdown would happen with VM
as well.
> switching folder/group time, etc.)
Gnus sets alot of stuff up before actually showing you your
summary buffer. So entering a group can take a little longer. I
certainly don't notice that it is slow though, unless I'm
entering a group with hundreds or more unread messages.
> 3) UI is more like other mail readers.
gnus-add-configuration is the function you should take a look at.
My configuration at the moment looks like: (I'm trying the longer
summary buffer because the length of some subjects gets wide)
---------------------------------------------------------
| SUMMARY |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| GROUP | |
| | ARTICLE |
| | |
| |-----------------------------------------------|
| | BBDB |
---------------------------------------------------------
Yesterday, I had the configuration:
---------------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | SUMMARY |
|GROUP |------------------------------------------------
| | |
| | ARTICLE |
| | |
| | |
| |------------------------------------------------
| | BBDB |
---------------------------------------------------------
> 4) Flexible support for "leave on server" functionality.
I believe they finally got this debugged with 21.1.
--
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
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