View source for KB 460

===Tin is slow to start reading a Usenet news group, what can I do about this?===
 Article:460
 Created:2008-03-28 12:10:40
 Categories:
   Unix
   Usenet News

====Question or Symptom====
Just entering a group, not actually reading articles.


====Resolution====
In his .tin/tinrc there is a section called reread_active_file_secs. Default is
1200 seconds
than it rereads the active file. Setting to 0 disables this.
reread_active_file_secs=0 
  
Also giving tin a few command line arguments will help in starting up....
  
tin -Q -r
  
-Q = Quick start
  
Just tried these options myself and tin started up very fast. I think these
options will help in 
speeding up his news reading. 
  
====addendum====
 might what to add/change:
 
 auto_reconnect=ON
 
 to tinrc as well, so it doesn't wait for a response to reconnect
 to server message.