Richmond <p1299...@protonmail.com> writes: > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > >> When gnus is asked to retrieve lots of back messages from a group I >> see `nntp read' followed by some numbers advances as each line >> appears. >> >> What is it that is being read ... server active file.... list of >> messages... each line of messages ... what? > > I should think it is retrieving the message headers. That's what my gnus > does when I select /o to retrieve old messages. > > If I want to download the articles using the agent I mark them all for > download and then download them.
So do the numbers represent lines read? or characters maybe? Maybe one set of nov info... for each line? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
