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From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
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Subject: Re: GNUS vs. rn
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Date: 30 Jun 89 18:04:51 GMT
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In article <NTANAKA.89Jun30110705@ARAGORN.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU> ntanaka@ARAGORN.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Nobuyoshi Tanaka) writes:

NT> In article <ABAIR.89Jun30015555@turbinia.oakhill.uucp>
NT> abair@turbinia.oakhill.uucp (Alan Bair) writes:

NT>    installing NNTP, does anyone know if it will be faster or slower than
NT>    the NFS mounting method?

NT> At first, I was using rn, and then switched to GNUS.  At that time, I
NT> was using GNUS by something like NFS, it was very slow.  After that, I
NT> switched to using NNTP, GNUS is much faster.  I don't know if GNUS via
NT> NNTP is faster than rn or not.  But, it is fast enough.

NT> This is my experience.

  I always use gnus.  Now it's a lot faster than rn if you use nntp with gnus.