[mew-int 2146] Re: NNTP problem

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Werner,
Sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time.

> The news server I use has an extremely long expiration time of news.
> An entry in tin's `.newsrc' file shows
> 
>   comp.text.tex: 1-188530990
> 
> It takes ages with mew to start retrieving the headers!  Even if I use
> the `last: xxx' option of the `s' key, mew reads far too much data --
> more than 20 minutes on my 20kByte/s internet connection.

This is a very good suggestion. I hit upon an idea that Mew should
request only last <n> messages to an NNTP server when a user specified
"last:n". 

I have implemented this and committed to the CVS tree. I hope you like
this.

--Kazu