(I added the ding list to Cc.)

>>>>> Sven Joachim wrote:

> Gnus v5.11
> GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.13)
>  of 2007-08-06 on debian, modified by Debian
> 200 news.motzarella.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.4 (20060818 snapshot) ready (posting ok).

I visited http://news.motzarella.org/ and got an account on
Motzarella out of curiosity. ;-)

> When accessing comp.os.linux.misc on news.motzarella.org, a _very_
> large newsgroup with more than 30,000,000 articles, Emacs' memory
> footprint grew heavily.

Yes, now the ACTIVE of that group is: