From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86755 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Downloading large numbers of unwanted k, so sitting and waiting Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 14:06:30 +1100 Message-ID: <87bn7tgqx5.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87bnkjy589.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454814448 2296 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2016 03:07:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 03:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Sharon Kimble Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34980@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 07 04:07:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSFgx-0002JH-QA for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 04:07:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSFgr-0003xS-Vz; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:07:10 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSFgo-0003wx-Tn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:07:07 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSFgi-0006i8-ND for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 21:07:06 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aSFgh-0006rj-BI for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 04:06:59 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aSFgK-0003l5-U8; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 04:06:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87bnkjy589.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (Sharon Kimble's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:27:18 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aSFgK-0003l5-U8 MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1455419198.5703@f6+xxBKZwDZqD8Qb6KsVmg X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86755 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: > I have a problem when I enter a newsgroup, I am prompted for how many > articles to get, and I input a number. No matter what number, be it > "1" or "35" or whatever, I *always* download large numbers of k. So I > am sitting waiting for this to end so that I can read the mails. > > How can I change this behaviour please? Do you have gnus-fetch-old-headers set, by any chance? That'll fetch a lot of data... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no