Re: Failing to retrieve all messages from group

[Lowell Gilbert]

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

> Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'm not sure how to obtain an article number; I used
> gnus-summary-show-all-headers, which shows
>
>
> Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp/7486>
>
> Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp/7487>
>
>
> . If these are the article numbers then that's not the problem.

I don't know; that's something internal to gmane.

The article numbers are in your .newsrc file.