On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:01 pm, Travis Crump wrote: > I don't mean the latency of posting->post appearing, I mean the latency > of clicking a subject and seeing the body. For e-mail the latency is > roughly equal to a hard drive access since fetchmail fetches my mail in > the background. So install Leafnode and use that as your local server. > For usenet, it is equal to a network access as the body > needs to be fetched from a usenet server. I suppose that you could > pre-fetch all the bodies, but that would negate one of the 'benefits' > that the post I was reponding to mentioned. I take it you're using POP3 to read your email. IMAP works basically the same way as NNTP, so there's no clear win either way. -- Kirk Strauser
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