Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!itsgw!rpi!pawl.rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: reading netnews in GNUemacs Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 89 03:34:21 GMT References: <2908@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <361@mqws2.fed.FRB.GOV> <444@solaria.csun.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: The Octagon Room Lines: 41 In-reply-to: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 23 Jan 89 22:20:42 GMT X-reader: GNUS 3.10 with NNTP 3.7 (Love the message-id's and reference lines ... keep 'em coming. David needs your headers for the record books ...) bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > While I'm impressed with gnews' flexibility, I'm depressed by its > speed. I've switched to GNUS 2.10. (Umm, 3.1, bob? I did get it from you ...) I'm afraid I have to agree with Bob. Why afraid? I dunno ... people always say things like that. In any event, Weemba sent me a message a short while ago that said, paraphrased, 'Gnews 2.0 has none of the problems you mentioned about GNUS.' (Quick aside, I wish both of these weren't pronounced the same way ...) Well, he was mostly right about that. And unfortunately no one else addressed the problems I mentioned in an earlier message. So, I got Gnews and tried it out. It was, sadly, MUCH larger as a package than GNUS (for which I couldn't afford the space to byte-compile, too) and somewhat slower too. That's where it lost the race. I'll give it points for flexibility, but I am pretty much settled on GNUS right now. I like the way it does things and it does do them faster and in less space. I also, by the way, did a benchmark (very unscientific one, to boot) with GNUS regarding spool files versus NNTP ... our local USENET host is rpi.edu, which is also mounted as /usenet on pawl.rpi.edu. From pawl.rpi.edu I ran GNUS both via NNTP and via the /usenet spool files. The results were that NNTP was noticeably faster, but, as I said, they were unscientific tests and the speed difference could be attributed to many different things and not necessarily reflect a consistent situation. If anyone comes up with some answers/fixes regarding automatic subscription of groups, translations of kill-files and anything else I mentioned in that earlier posting, please let me know. Thanks. Dave -- -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu