I downloaded and compiled TRN but am having some problems understanding the issues. Please understand, this is my first attempt at any *rn family of products. I have DSL, an nntp server available to me, lots of disk space, and CPU speed is not an issue. I have no interest in running my own server. I do have an interest in doing as much work as I can locally; threading, indexing, offline message body storage, whatever. The key in TRN appears to be choosing overview or mthreads. I'm assuming overview is random access blocks and mthreads is sorted (or something like that). Running config, up pops this question: > > Enter a local directory for overview files, "remote", or "none": > (~name ok) At first I answered this with the default "remote", finished the rest, started up the program. The first newsgroup I added took 30 minutes to get headers (I assume it's getting headers). Every time I quit out and restarted, another 20 minutes. Not very useful configuration to me. :) So, maybe this is "offline mode" so to speak. Changed the above Configure parameter to a local directory. Now, instead, it takes 5 hours saying it's "threading". Good, I let it run 5 hours. Quit program, restart, it wants another 5 hours. Whoa. Can someone give me an idea of what is going on in each situation? Can someone tell me what my target configuration might look like? -- William Guynes
