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Re: Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threa
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus fetches too many headers WAS: Re: Showing Complete Active Threads |
Date: |
Mon, 15 May 2006 09:48:58 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
>> 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.
By courtesy of Frank, I finally got it.
,----[ telnet ]
| GROUP infko.general
| 211 59666 3 63244 infko.general
`----
According to the RFC this looks plausible to me.
,----[ RFC977 3.2.1. GROUP ]
| 3.2.2. Responses
|
| 211 n f l s group selected
| (n = estimated number of articles in group,
| f = first article number in the group,
| l = last article number in the group,
| s = name of the group.)
| 411 no such news group
`----
Bye,
Tassilo
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