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Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> i have a new computer and the following problem: I want to start with
> all my old mail/news groups, but have not transferred the news data
> (the articles).
>
> Now Gnus tries to catch all articles for all newsgroups from the
> newsserver which haven't expired, and in case of comp.emacs i
> interrupted at 10 MB data (over 64 Kbit line...). I did made a catchup
> before, didn't help.
>
> What to do? I want to start new, with unread and uncatched articles in
> ALL groups.

Gnus should not download all articles from all newsgroups on the
server unless you enter the group and select the articles manually.
If this really is happening, you could try M-x debug-on-entry RET
nntp-request-article RET and post the backtrace.

My guess would be that what is being downloaded is the headers,
perhaps you could frob `gnus-fetch-old-headers'.