Re: Weird number of messages on server

[giglio robbo' d'acciaio]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> I think that no group in the whole solar system has nearly 6 millions of
>> messages, 
>
> Maybe there was a Felini vs. Antonioni thread ;)

ROTFL! Indeed it's a very high traffic group :-D

> Catch up with it (`c') and then you can look at the last N articles
> (say, 200) with
>
> C-u 200 Enter
>
> on the group.  Once you start seeing new messages from your
> subscription date, this won't be necessary.  But if a group has no
> unread messages (as will be the case when you catch up), Gnus will
> again try to get everything in the group, so you need to limit it.
>
> Ted

Thank you very much.
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