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Mats Lidell <Mats.Lidell@contactor.se> writes:

> Just courious about how much data is fetched when reading the
> headers. The status info in the mini-bugger can show as much as 30-40k
> data for a newsgroup with 30 new messages. That's much more than I was
> expecting.

It depends on your variable settings (gnus-fetch-old-headers in
particular) and whether the 30 unread messages were spread out
numerically. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen