[OT] Gmane/Tunderbird users: is g.c.p.general too big?

[Robert Kern]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Sorry about this almost off-topic post, but I am guessing there must be 
> other readers of this group who use Thunderbird (in my case 1.0.2) to 
> access it as gmane.comp.general.python.
> 
> I'm currently showing 344,548 articles in the group due to the gmane 
> policy of permanent retention, and lately it seems to have started 
> taking forever to switch from mailboxes to the newsgroup. Furthermore, 
> the Thunderbird process's memory usage climbs from ~30MB reading mail to 
> over 200MB reading the newsgroup.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this, or is it specific to my setup? Does anyone 
> have a solution?

You can specify a policy for keeping old messages for each server
account. Go to your "Account Settings" for GMane and look in "Offline &
Disk Space". You can choose to keep all messages, the newest N messages,
or messages from the past N days.

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Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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