Subject: Slow open on INBOX...

From: Shawn Slavin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:32:09 -0500

Hi.  Somebody from UCS at Indiana University posted a message about a 
slow open of the INBOX with Pine 3.91, on all the platforms he had 
compiled it on.  I have noticed this, too, both on our dept. HP735's, 
Suns, and my FreeBSD PC at home.

I think that the problem has to do with the NNTP software.  Try setting 
the NNTP-server to <Empty Value> and running pine again.  I believe that 
you'll notice that the lag is gone.  I must admit that I found this by 
mistake, but I'm pretty sure that this is it.

Hope this helps.

Shawn Slavin
Indiana University Astronomy

Internet:  [email-masked]
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From: David Dumaresq <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT)

> mistake, but I'm pretty sure that this is it.

Well I tried setting the nntp-server value to both "" and empty but it
didn't make a difference. Both settings take about 40 secs (including
login). There may be some difference between our systems.

In any case, this wouldn't be much of a solution to those who actually 
have a nntp-server.

Cheers,
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