Re: Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threads

[Tassilo Horn]

Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:

>> 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.

By courtesy of Frank, I finally got it.

,----[ telnet ]
| GROUP infko.general
| 211 59666 3 63244 infko.general
`----

According to the RFC this looks plausible to me.

,----[ RFC977 3.2.1.  GROUP ]
| 3.2.2.  Responses
| 
|    211 n f l s group selected
|            (n = estimated number of articles in group,
|            f = first article number in the group,
|            l = last article number in the group,
|            s = name of the group.)
|    411 no such news group
`----

Bye,
Tassilo
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