RS> I realise that the message base in AVT has been very deep 
 RS> for a long time now and that the slow tossing of the REP is 
 RS> quite recent. In other words whatever change you made 
 RS> lately, presumably stopping running under EXEC, has caused a 
 RS> noticeable increase in the tossing time to a deep message 
 RS> base.

 PE> I only stopped running under EXEC about a week ago, in an 
 PE> attempt to fix Roy's problem.  BFN.
 PE> Paul

Tonight I manually read a few msgs around the 3800 mark, then did a
Browse for Your Mail, Qwked. It packed and downloaded fine. I don't
know if your changes made the difference, or the shallower Lastread
mark. Feel free to experiment, I make a good guinea pig...

cheers
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