From: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: on downloading too much data when there's no news
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 21:07:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7tf6z7f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868sermgqb.fsf@protonmail.com>
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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. :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-07 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 14:13 Wayne Harris
2020-08-06 19:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2020-08-06 19:54 ` Adam Sjøgren
2020-08-07 0:39 ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-07 1:07 ` Amin Bandali [this message]
2020-08-07 2:45 ` Wayne Harris
2020-08-07 17:40 ` Russ Allbery
2020-08-07 17:44 ` Adam Sjøgren
2020-08-07 0:23 ` Wayne Harris
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