This is very very annoying. Every time I open one of these messages I get a huge pregnant 5-second pause, along with the Mac Beach Ball (hourglass) while this message is opened in my news reader.

Whatever this is, can we get rid of it?

-Steve

On 4/17/2014 8:51 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Every time I open one of these messages I
> get a huge pregnant 5-second pause, along with the Mac Beach Ball
> (hourglass) while this message is opened in my news reader.
>

Sounds like something's wrong with your news reader.

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:29:47 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:

> On 4/17/2014 8:51 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Every time I open one of these messages I
>> get a huge pregnant 5-second pause, along with the Mac Beach Ball
>> (hourglass) while this message is opened in my news reader.
>>
>
> Sounds like something's wrong with your news reader.

But it only happens on these messages that come "via Digitamars-d," and consistently so. What could be the difference.

I've used this newsreader for years (opera), never had this problem.

-Steve

On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 21:30:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 4/17/2014 8:51 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Every time I open one of these messages I
>> get a huge pregnant 5-second pause, along with the Mac Beach Ball
>> (hourglass) while this message is opened in my news reader.
>>
>
> Sounds like something's wrong with your news reader.

Its not the client, its happening on the web interface as well.
Most notably for Manu's posts.

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:51:33 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is very very annoying. Every time I open one of these messages I get a huge pregnant 5-second pause, along with the Mac Beach Ball (hourglass) while this message is opened in my news reader.
>
> Whatever this is, can we get rid of it?

another side-effect: no threading is occurring on d.bugs on my newsreader. It used to thread these messages properly.

For some reason, the long pauses have gone away.

-Steve

On 4/17/2014 8:56 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> Its not the client, its happening on the web interface as well.
> Most notably for Manu's posts.

I noticed for a while now that Manu's posts are very large, even though there aren't that many lines of text in them. Examining the posting source shows that the content of Manu's posts are repeated, once in HTML and once in plain text.

Perhaps the delay is because your newsreader is trying to load an HTML rendering engine for Manu's posts, which it would not for regular text ones.

On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 23:07:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/17/2014 8:56 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> Its not the client, its happening on the web interface as well.
>> Most notably for Manu's posts.
>
> I noticed for a while now that Manu's posts are very large, even though there aren't that many lines of text in them. Examining the posting source shows that the content of Manu's posts are repeated, once in HTML and once in plain text.
>
> Perhaps the delay is because your newsreader is trying to load an HTML rendering engine for Manu's posts, which it would not for regular text ones.

I still haven't worked out how to even use a newsreader with the ntp server. I'm still relying on the web interface. So I'm definitely not alone in seeing this one.

On 4/21/2014 8:59 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> I still haven't worked out how to even use a newsreader with the ntp server. I'm
> still relying on the web interface. So I'm definitely not alone in seeing this one.

Thunderbird is a very good newsreader. A lot of folks here use it.

On 22 April 2014 14:54, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 4/21/2014 8:59 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>
>> I still haven't worked out how to even use a newsreader with the ntp
>> server. I'm
>> still relying on the web interface. So I'm definitely not alone in seeing
>> this one.
>
>
> Thunderbird is a very good newsreader. A lot of folks here use it.

I tried it for a bit. Couldn't get used to it. It just felt like an
inconvenience.
I'm sure it's great, it's just unfamiliar to me, and it feels a bit
over-kill installing a whole big software package for no reason other
than reading one mailing list.

I like gmail. I've been using it for the better part of 10 years, and I can access it from anywhere. Installing client software to read email feels like I'm back on my Amiga in the 90's ;)

On 04/17/2014 05:51 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> This is very very annoying.

Also, I don't think the "From" field is the right place for the information of where the message was sent from.

Ali