Re: Possible bugs (gnus-demon and switching modes when composing messages)

[Burton Samograd <burton@samograd.ca>]

Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net> writes:

> On Wednesday, November 21 2012, I wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, November 21 2012, Matt Ford wrote:
>>
>>> It might.  To be clear when setting 'consider-all-articles' to 't', when
>>> using nntp groups it produced unwanted behaviour.  Every time I went to
>>> a newsgroup it downloaded every single article ever posted every time
>>> (regardless if I'd all ready done so).  And some newsgroups are big.
>>
>> Ah, ok, I know what you mean now.  `gnus-agent-consider-all-articles'
>> is 'nil' for me since the beginning, and I didn't change it.  So I think
>> this is not the problem...
>
> Well, after more research on that topic, I found this:
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/11608
>
> In short: the author of the thread was complaining more or less about
> the same thing, and his problem was that he was using
> `gnus-fetch-old-headers', setting it to `t'.
>
> I do the same thing here in .gnus, and then I started to do some
> experiments.  Now, Gnus opens the newsgroup much faster, of course.  It
> doesn't have to download everything from news.gmane.org, only some
> messages (I set `gnus-fetch-old-headers' to 500 specifically on gmane
> groups).
>
> So, my question now is: what do you guys use?  Do you also use
> `gnus-fetch-old-headers'?

I use gnus-fetch-old-headers, but I also use a leafnode as a local nntp
server.  This gives much better response when fetching a the larger
number of articles that fetch old headers requires. It is pretty easy to
setup to fetch articles from a number of remote nttp servers.

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Burton Samgorad