Yes, your news base is getting large, and for this reason Yarn is
going to perform slower.
There are two options.
1. Reduce the expire time, as you have figured. I set it to 7 days
personally. However, when you change the expire time, do not expect
to see improvement immediately. The articles you have already
received were received under the 30-day setting, and they will go
away only after 30 days.
2. Use expire -r to get rid of existing articles that you have already
read. This can be done in conjunction with 1 to get maximum
improvement, if you want to.
>Is there an easy way to jump directly to the reference article?
Cannot help you there. I also wish I could do that.
>I know what cancel of an article means. But what is supersed? Does this
>mean, the original article is *replaced* with the superseded one?
Yes. Grammatically, you should describe this as "the original
article is replaced (superceded) by the superseding one". :)
Yarn, as a standard compliant program, will handle superceding
correctly (i.e., according to the intention of the author of the
articles). That is to say, the original article will be deleted
from your news base properly.
-- Albert Y.C. Lai trebla@io.org http://www.io.org/~trebla/