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Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups?
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:17:25 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Joe Fineman wrote:
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 04 2008, Joe Fineman wrote:
>>
>>> I run Gnus v5.10.6 under Emacs 21.3.1 under Windows XP (alas).
>>> Because Verizon has truncated its service, I recently signed on to
>>> a latitudinarian news server (Motzarella). I find that four of the
>>> newsgroups I want to read come up with backlogs on the order of 30
>>> million postings.
>>
>> Unless it is some binary newsgroup, this seem unlikely.
>
> None of the four is a binary newsgroup.
[ Please reply to the list! This is from the mail you sent to me: ]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /cygdrive/c/usr/own/f/p/networks/motzarella> telnet news.motzarella.org nntp
> Trying 85.214.105.209...
> Connected to news.motzarella.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 news.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.5 ready
> (posting ok).
> MODE READER
> GROUP comp.text.tex
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> There was no response in 20 min. Indeed, the shell (an Emacs shell)
> seems to have died.
Does it work in cmd.exe? Or can anyone else with access to motzarella
show the result?
On one of the biggest news provides in Germany, I get:
,----
| GROUP comp.text.tex
| 211 3562 328642 332246 comp.text.tex
`----
I doubt that motzarella has an older archive (higher article count)
unless there some bug.
> > The maximum number Gnus can handle depends on your Emacs version and
> > architecture.
> >
> > What is the output of <f1> v most-positive-fixnum RET?
> > You may need to load cl before: M-x load-library RET cl RET
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> most-positive-fixnum's value is 134217727
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
So groups with 100 million postings should work.
>>> I have tried twice to post this query on gnu.emacs.gnus (a
>>> moderated group),
>>
>> gnu.emacs.gnus isn't moderated.
>
> I so interpreted the (m) in the Group buffer. If it is not moderated,
> then it is all the more mysterious that I cannot succeed in posting to
> it.
All newsservers I have, don't list it as moderated:
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| # news.[...].de
| 201 news.[...].de InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.4 (20060818 snapshot)
ready (no posting).
| 215 Descriptions in form "group description".
| gnu.emacs.gnus News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in
English).
| de.admin.news.announce RFDs, CFVs, Zwischen- und Endergebnisse.
<moderator@dana.de> (Moderated)
| 205 .
| # news.[...].de
| 200 news.[...].de DNEWS Version 5.6f3,, S0, posting OK
| 215 list of newsgroup names follow
| de.admin.news.announce RFDs, CFVs, Zwischen- und Endergebnisse.
(Moderated)
| gnu.emacs.gnus News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in English).
`----
Bye, Reiner.
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