Re: nntp groups downloading all headers on each entry

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>>     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....
>
> No, only once per group.  The initial fetch will populate your .overview
> files with the headers from article 1 to the most recent one.
> Thereafter, it should only fetch new headers.  That's what it does/did
> here.
>
> If it fetches all headers in every Gnus session, there's something
> wrong.  Did you set `gnus-nov-is-evil'?  That would explain it...

My `gnus-nov-is-evil' is still nil, so that's not it. But there are only
.overview files in my ~/Mail directory, not my ~/News directory, so
there's an immediate explanation. Actually, there are no directories
corresponding to my nntp newsgroups at all, so I'm not sure where those
.overview files would go.

I'm still in the process of downloading massive amounts of past mail,
and that seems to be mucking with the whole system. I'm going to wait
until I've got everything down and sorted, and restarted a few times,
and then start worrying about it...

E