Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: vn verses vnews Message-ID: <1090@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 11 Oct 88 20:57:28 GMT References: <632@convex.UUCP> <549@happym.UUCP> Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 8 There were several things about "vn" that appealed to me the one time I tried it. The way it breaks up digests was particularly nice. Unfortunately, it initializes for _all_ of your subscribed groups at invocation. Since I subscribe to 91 groups (wait a sec... really!?), we're talking many minutes! Has someone eliminated this problem? -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov