Re: Failing to retrieve all messages from group

[Lowell Gilbert]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> I'm trying to retrieve old messages from the tramp mailing
> list. However, I'm only getting 2 messages,
>
>        2: nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.tramp
>
> even if I do something like C-u 1 0 0 RET in the group buffer.
>
> This is despite the listing from the *Server* buffer showing that the
> group has 7404 messages:
>
>     7404: gmane.emacs.tramp
>
> I've tried un-subscribing and re-subscribing, but each time the group
> comes up with 2 messages. What should I try next?

Check the article numbers.  It's possible that there really are just two
articles, but they are numbered 7402 apart.  Not sure how the server
would get that way, but I can imagine a few possibilities.