Karl Kleinpaste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xyblor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Shouldn't the newsrc.eld file save a list of all the available >> newsgroups, so I don't have to read the whole active file every time? > > Saving the entire list of groups is a very expensive (in bandwidth and > storage space) thing to do because there are tens of thousands of > groups known to large installations; far too heavy a cost to outweigh > the small benefit of the very occasional time that one really wants > that list. (Even on my small server, the active file is half a > megabyte.)
I'm not proposing to download the entire active file every time I start gnus, I just want to save it once so that tab-completion works. I thought that was how it's supposed to work; then any new groups added to the server would be added to the list in .newsrc according to gnus-check-new-newsgroups. This arrangement should use *less* bandwidth, since I would only download the list once, instead of every time I want to browse it. I'm confused about all this; maybe I'll look in the "Agent" menu, since it seems like I'm trying to do something "unplugged". Thanks for the tip about server mode. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
