Dale Worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- A morning without coffee is like something without something else. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
