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Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threads
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threads |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:31:27 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Rolleston <Nemo@nullsome.net> writes:
> It attempts to download every header it can from the news server. Try that
> on 'alt.test' and you'll begin to see why (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t)
> is a bad idea. :)
Ok, I was able to reproduce this. I've set nntp-record-commands to t and
made `g' in Summary Buffer to fetch new articles which resulted in
infko.general (3)
When I entered this Group Gnus started to fetch several megabytes and
the output in *nntp-log* was
,----[ *nntp-log* after entering infko.general with 3 new articles ]
| 20060309T121041.752 news.uni-koblenz.de GROUP infko.general
| 20060309T121041.926 news.uni-koblenz.de XOVER 1-61172
`----
This newsgroup has medium traffic and I enter it several times a day, so
all except the 3 new articles should have been available...
After the `g' I also had
comp.emacs (1)
and entering this group resulted in
,----[ *nntp-log* after entering comp.emacs with 1 new article ]
| 20060309T121028.368 news.uni-koblenz.de GROUP comp.emacs
| 20060309T121028.372 news.uni-koblenz.de XOVER 54834-54834
`----
That looks quite ok to me.
So why does Gnus fetch all headers of infko.general but only the needed
headers for comp.emacs?
INFO: I use Gnus with gnus-agent and try to prevent loose threads with
(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)
But the 3 new articles in infko.general don't reference old
articles which would require the fetching of all headers.
Regards,
Tassilo