>>>>> Leo wrote: > On 2007-09-14 00:27 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> I'll do it someday, even though I'm not a good English writer. ;-) > I am non-native speaker myself. OK. I've added this: (info "(gnus)Slow/Expensive Connection") ,---- |`gnus-nov-is-evil' | This one has to be _always_ `nil' (which is the default). If you | need not to use NOV (see below) with the `nntp' back end for | example (*note Crosspost Handling::), set `nntp-nov-is-evil' to a | non-`nil' value instead of setting this. But you normally have no | need to set `nntp-nov-is-evil' since Gnus by itself will detect | whether the NNTP server supports NOV. Anyway, grabbing article | headers from the NNTP server will not be very fast if you tell | Gnus not to use NOV. | | As the variables for the other back ends, there are | `nndiary-nov-is-evil', `nndir-nov-is-evil', | `nnfolder-nov-is-evil', `nnimap-nov-is-evil', `nnml-nov-is-evil', | `nnspool-nov-is-evil', and `nnwarchive-nov-is-evil'. Note that a | non-`nil' value for `gnus-nov-is-evil' overrides all those | variables. | |What's NOV? | | NOV stands for News OverView, which provide data containing the |condensed header information of articles. They are what the server |makes; in the `nntp' back end Gnus uses the ones that the NNTP server |makes, but Gnus makes them by itself in the server like `nnml' which |Gnus performs. The NOV data consist of one or more text lines (*note |Motion by Text Lines: (elisp)Text Lines.) where each line has the header |information of one article. The header information is a tab-separated |series of the header's contents including an article number, a subject, |an author, a date, a message-id, references, etc. | | Those data enable Gnus to generate summary lines fast. However, if |the server does not support NOV or you disable it purposely or for some |reason, Gnus will try to generate the header information by parsing |article's header one by one. It will take time. Therefore, it is not |usually a good idea to set `*-nov-is-evil' to a non-`nil' value unless |there is such a reason that the server makes wrong NOV data. `---- See you next week. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
