Re: Excessive nntp reads since today

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>>   - Your patch is correct with respect to the docs
>>
>>   - Your patch is bad, because now you can't use 'some for
>>     `gnus-fetch-old-headers' unless you have a super-fast internet
>>     connection. 
>
> `some' was never meant to fetch everything -- that was what t was for.

Then the docs were wrong:

,----[ C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers RET ]
| gnus-fetch-old-headers is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'.
| 
| Documentation:
| [...] If it has the value `some', all old headers will be fetched but
| only enough headers to connect otherwise loose threads will be
| displayed. [...]
`----

Wolfgang fixed the implementation to reflect exactly what the docs say.
IMHO, we'd better have fixed the docs and let the implementation as it
has been.

Bye,
Tassilo