Re: Gnus always fetching all messages from nntp server

[Gabe Logan <session13@poczta.fm>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Gabe Logan <session13@poczta.fm> writes:
>
>> Thanks, I've unset gnus-fetch-old-headers and now it fetches only unread
>> messages. But when gnus-fetch-old-headers is t, shouldn't Gnus fetch
>> only those old headers which belongs to unread messages ? 
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  If you don't have `gnus-fetch-old-headers'
> set, it fetches only the headers for the articles you request (which is
> normally the unread articles).  If you have it set, it fetches all headers.

I'll try to make it clear. I wanted Gnus to make A T command on every
unread article when entering group buffer. This way, when I have no
unread articles, Gnus won't fetch any headers from server. But if
someone will post to a old thread, Gnus will show this message in my
buffer along with all predecesing posts in this thread. The time Gnus
will spend on fetching messages for one or few threads should be much
smaller then when fetching all 80.000+ messages available on server.

Now, when I discovered the A T command I don't really think that the
described above functionality is necessery. Someone who reads his news
every day doesn't need to go through the whole thread every time he gets
new message (no time wasted on fetching old msgs). And in case of need
he can use A T to see whole thread.

-- 
Thanks
Gabe