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brian@RADIO.ASTRO.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Glendenning) writes:
   1) I guess a Sun 3/180 must be a "slow" machine, since I had to set
   gnus-group-headers to nil in gnus-Exit-group-hook. Without this
   leaving some newsgroups was just too painful.

Hm - I use a Sun3/50 with an NFS-mounted /usr/spool/news most of the
time, and I seldom have any problem.  When there are a *lot* of
articles in the newsgroup, exit may take a while, but that's
relatively infrequent.  Can you provide examples?  How many articles,
how much Xref: resolution, etc, make it seem slow?

   2) I often read news from home at 2400 baud, and I'd like to make gnus
   only display articles when I explicitly ask for them (i.e. hit the
   spacebar). Although I have auto-select-first set to nil, when I, for
   example, kill the current subject, after the kills are done the first
   remaining article is brought up. (Hope that's clear).

`k' is gnus-Subject-kill-same-subject-and-select.  If instead you use
`C-k,' then you execute gnus-Subject-kill-same-subject, which does not
select the next article.

   3) How can I go to the next newsgroup in subject mode rather than back
   to the newsgroups buffer when I catch-up within a subject buffer.

You can't, from what I've been able to determine.

   4) I am probably an idiot. My attempts to automatically sort subjects
   (by subject) in gnus-Subject-mode-hook has failed dismally.

You're not an idiot, you just haven't read the documentation
sufficiently carefully.  You're using the wrong hook.  From the Info
system node `Hooks':

	This hook is intended to customize Subject Mode only once.

You should instead be using gnus-Select-group-hook, which is run each
time that any group is selected.  There is a good example there (in
`Hooks,' that is) of how to do what you want.

   5) We have both  nntp running and news on local spool. I am assuming
   that the local spool code is faster, except for possibly following
   article references back. Is this right?

I think so, but my usage of the NNTP code has been only slight, for
testing purposes - we normally don't allow NNTP reading, depending on
an NFS-mounted spool instead.

--Karl