From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: a dilemma
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:10:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmo010al.fsf@rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r79ebcee.fsf@dev.pkfinance.info>
Faried Nawaz <faried@gmail.com> writes:
> I read this group (and several others) using gmane's nntp interface. If I
> have gnus-fetch-old-headers set to 'some, it takes forever to enter a group
> -- gnus downloads a few megs of headers. If I set it to something small,
> like 20, I can enter almost instantaneously.
>
> I use the same gnus to read email. Is there any way to selectively
> apply different values of gnus-fetch-old-headers based on the group
> name/type?
Not that I was ever able to get working reliably, I fear, though maybe
that has changed.
I installed, and use, leafnode to resolve that issue. It is a nice
caching NNTP system that sits between me and GMane and does a fine job
of speeding things up.
Also, for the love of god, please don't warlord! You signature was
insanely huge, especially the ASCII-art sword.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-20 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 8:14 Faried Nawaz
2005-11-18 16:42 ` Reiner Steib
2005-11-21 7:19 ` Faried Nawaz
2005-11-20 3:10 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2005-11-20 5:15 ` Kevin Greiner
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