Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: reading netnews in GNUemacs Message-ID: <980@ruuinf.UUCP> Date: 16 Jan 89 08:31:28 GMT References: <2908@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <361@mqws2.fed.FRB.GOV> Sender: piet@ruuinf.UUCP Reply-To: piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland Lines: 14 In-reply-to: m1tag00@fed.frb.gov (Tim A. Grunwald) In article <361@mqws2.fed.FRB.GOV>, m1tag00@fed (Tim A. Grunwald) writes: ` ` We have been using Gnews to read netnews from spool files for `the last month. It is flexible and powerful within the Gnu Emacs environment. ` There are a few complaints. First, Gnews can be *painfully* slow. `It takes incredibly long to go from newsgroup to newsgroup. I don't `see why it should take so long, but I have not checked the code. I had the same problem when I first used Gnews. After byte-compiling it, it was much faster. We do have a resonably fast machine, however (9*VAX/780). -- Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)