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From: Secret Squirrel
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 00:00

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 In article <819157260_OASIS_@anyworld.demon.co.uk>
  mark@anyworld.demon.co.uk (Mark DuBerry) said:-

>I've been using NOS until discovering Oasis recently. I agree the interface is a
>lot more attractive but I have a question: When I log on using Oasis, once it
>connects to the News server, it takes ages to read the articles and lists each
>one that it is downloading.
 
Once connected to Demon, type: nntp trace 1 to stop the article listing. (Better
still, edit your STARTUP NOS as above).
  
> Similarly when I exit, it takes a long time to sort
>the articles. Neither of these things happens when I am using NOS. Is this
>correct? If I use any more than a few newsgroups, this process is going to take
>forever each time I logon.

Oasis is supposed to be faster than NOS for unbatching news.

I think version 2 of Oasis is going to handle news differently.

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