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Re: Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threa
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threads |
Date: |
Sun, 14 May 2006 20:33:44 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dale Worley <worley@dragon.ariadne.com> writes:
Hi Dale,
> I've had some problems like this myself. I think the problem is that
> your .newsrc doesn't record all the numbers from 1 to 61172 as being
> already seen, and so Gnus attempts to fetch every header in the range
> with a separate HEAD command.
My .newsrs has this entry:
,----
| infko.general: 1-63217
`----
Looks ok, doesn't it?
> It is possible that the news server is not reporting the "minimum
> article number present" correctly, and so Gnus is attempting to fetch
> articles starting with number 1. I would log in to the NNTP server
> using telnet and do a "GROUP infko.general" and see what the results
> are.
As I am no NNTP expert, how do I login and authenticate? The group is
only readable by students and employees of the university. Providing -l
<myuser> to telnet doesn't work.
> You may want to manually edit .newsrc to say "infko.general: 1-60000"
> or something like that. At the least, if you tell Gnus to only fetch
> 100 articles from the group (when it asks), it should run correctly.
Normally it doesn't ask, because the group only has a handful new
articles. I suspect
,----
| gnus-fetch-old-headers is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
| Its value is some
`----
to cause the heavy loading of already seen articles, but I may be wrong.
Luckily this really happens only in some very rare cases and my internet
connection is fast enough to fetch some megs then.
Bye,
Tassilo
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