From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82250 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Jenkner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Excessive nntp reads since today Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:34:49 +0200 Message-ID: <857gs874qu.fsf@iznogoud.viz> References: <877gvcd91f.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <85txygk74a.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87y5nsbqj4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <85pq94k37p.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87aa08big2.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87txvcbmk6.fsf@gnus.org> <87wr081qna.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87harc788z.fsf@gnus.org> <87zk54v185.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346866516 17326 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2012 17:35:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30518@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 05 19:35:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JVS-00030p-M4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JVI-00027k-IB; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JVH-00027N-4W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JVC-0000Za-Ca for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx06.lb01.inode.at ([62.99.145.6] helo=mx.inode.at) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JVA-0001LO-Eo; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:34:56 +0200 Original-Received: from [91.119.101.188] (port=3724 helo=iznogoud.viz) by smartmx-06.inode.at with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JV5-0004iU-Bs; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:34:51 +0200 Original-Received: from wolfgang by iznogoud.viz with local (Exim 4.80 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1T9JV3-00025o-P2; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:34:49 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Tassilo Horn , Lars Ingebrigtsen , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87zk54v185.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:16:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82250 Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 05 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > >>> Then the docs were wrong: >>> >>> ,----[ C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers RET ] >>> | gnus-fetch-old-headers is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. >>> | >>> | Documentation: >>> | [...] If it has the value `some', all old headers will be fetched but >>> | only enough headers to connect otherwise loose threads will be >>> | displayed. [...] >>> `---- >>> >>> Wolfgang fixed the implementation to reflect exactly what the docs say. >>> IMHO, we'd better have fixed the docs and let the implementation as it >>> has been. >> >> Yeah, but that's after the clarification. :-) They used to say: >> >> -displayed in the Summary buffer. If this variable is t, Gnus >> -will attempt to grab the headers to the old articles, and thereby >> -build complete threads. If it has the value `some', only enough >> -headers to connect otherwise loose threads will be displayed. This >> -variable can also be a number. In that case, no more than that number >> -of old headers will be fetched. If it has the value `invisible', all >> >> i.e., it didn't say that all headers would be fetched... > > Oh, Wolfgang, you prankster. ;-) ??? I think you are misunderstanding. As I said, that clarification was made in 2005-11-20 by Kevin Greiner. Wolfgang