Re: Recommendation for newsreader
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:04 +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote:
> So far, I have been using pan.
>
> However, it tends to become painfully slow when the groups contain
> more
> than 30.000 messages; exponentially slow.
> On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer
> the
> archive of gmane.org, which as of now contains more than 200.000
> posts.
> With numbers like this, to search for a keyword in the subject or an
> author's name, it can take literally minutes to sort through the posts
> in
> order to come up with the result.
>
> I have also briefly looked at Thunderbird and Sylpheed, but both seem
> to
> suffer from a similar problem. Neither seems to implement advanced
> search
> strategies like hashing and stuff. All seem to do pure text / string
> searches. ('seem' == I didn't look at the code.)
>
> Now I'd really appreciate your recommendation for a method or
> apparatus to
> handle groups with large numbers of messages in a suitable and
> reasonably
> fast manner.
Have you thought about becoming an nntp leaf node? Packages sn
and leafnode may be what you are looking for.
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