Eliminating extra cursor symbols

[Donald Arseneau]

Hi all,
I've just updated my system by a big step and am trying to deal with
new annoyances in gnus.  

There is the obvious one that emacs is a pig on an old computer,
and startup is really slow, even after suppressing the graphical
Gnu "splash screen" and eliminating the emacs toolbar.  Any other
tips?  (Loading articles seems about the same as before.)  I may
need to use "emacs -nw" when running over a network connection.

Anyway, my more specific question has to do with extra, disabled, 
cursor symbols in other windows: when the (text) cursor is in the
summary window, there is a disabled (hollow) cursor shown in the
message window (and vice versa).  It gets in the way of reading 
messages!  Has anyone cleaned up this bit?

(Gnus version will be in the message headers)

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Donald Arseneau                          asnd@triumf.ca