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From: | Harry Putnam |
Subject: | Re: What is gnus reading when it says `nntp read NNN' |
Date: | Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:45:43 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Richmond <p1299721@protonmail.com> writes: > Harry Putnam <reader@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?
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