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On 22 October 2012 14:51, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

    Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
    
    >>> I'm still reconsituting my gnus configuration, and with my current
    >>> (still minimal) setup I'm seeing weird behavior: On each entry of an
    >>> nntp group, I'm apparently downloading *all* headers for the group
    >>> -- in
    >>
    >> Maybe check out the setting of gnus-fetch-old-headers?
    >
    > That did it! And I only had to wait 20 minutes to see your reply :)
    > Turns out it was my fault after all -- I'd set it to 'some, for
    > reasons that totally escape me.
    
    Yes, that behavior has changed recently.  Have a look at this thread.
    
      http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/cutoff=82423
    
    I also have the value 'some for `gnus-fetch-old-headers', and now that
    means that Gnus will fetch *all* old headers initially.  But it will do
    that only once.

Only once per gnus session? That's the behavior I was seeing with 'some....