Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes: [...]
>> No matter what, I think the main recommendation would be to try to open >> group buffers with fewer messages! Is it really necessary to display >> tens of thousands of messages each time? [...] > (The effort to acquire postings is preparatory to try to learn how to > use the new search possibilities that yourself, Andrew C and others > have been working on currently as noted in several continuing threads > on `gmane.emacs.gnus.general') > > The problem is that if I asked gnus to just download whatever is on > the gmane or enews.newsguy.com spools for a group..., in the most > interesting ones there may be several hundred thousand msgs going back > to early 2000, in some cases I've gotten clear into the late 90s. > > So I set about acquiring around 50,000 or so where possible. Ended up > with 8 grps or so, but most are between 10 and 40 thousand with a few > above 70,000. > > Hence the spate of time spent opening many many headers to be able to > mark and download 50,000 or so in bunches of 5,000 or so, and over > time, so as not to get blackballed off gmane for abusive downloading. > > Maybe some kind of trickery with agent categories could have made this > a bit or even a lot easier... I just set the predicate to `true' on > all agentized groups and did the downloading manually > > I have 38 groups agentized over three servers .. quite minor league > compared to a real news spool... > > I ended up with 1,033,195 posts but now only have to keep up with what > is newly posted. Yeesh... At this point it might make more sense just to install your own local LeafNode server and do nntp yourself, don't you think? I'm sorry I can't speak to your specific questions about the agent -- I only use the agent with my gmane backend (all the other backends are local), and there I just agentize the whole server, I haven't tried anything finer-grained than that. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
