Re: on downloading too much data when there's no news

[Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com>]

Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:

> Wayne Harris writes:
>
>> Adam Sjøgren writes:
>>
>>> Adam writes:
>>>
>>>> But now we are deeper into how Gnus works than what I know :-)
>>>
>>> It looks like you can configure Gnus to use GROUP instead of LIST
>>> ACTIVE:
>>>
>>> ,----[ C-h v nntp-server-list-active-group RET ]
>>> | nntp-server-list-active-group is a variable defined in ‘nntp.el’.
>>> | Its value is nil
>>> | 
>>> | Documentation:
>>> | If nil, then always use GROUP instead of LIST ACTIVE.
>>> | This is usually slower, but on misconfigured servers that don’t
>>> | update their active files often, this can help.
>>> | 
>>> | This is a Gnus server variable.  See Info node ‘(gnus)Select Methods’.
>>> `----
>>
>> How can I build such a beautiful ASCII-sign like that? (Jealous!)
>>
> [...]
>
> That would be boxquote <http://www.davep.org/emacs/#Fboxquote.el>.
> It's a super neat little package. :-)

,----[ Loved it! ]
| I will have to agree.  But maybe I'll abuse it so much and nobody will
| want to read my posts anymore. :-)
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