From: Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk>
Subject: (setq nntp-server-list-active-group 'nil) - will it break anything?
Date: 06 Jan 1998 20:51:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33ej1s4wb.fsf@lotusland.demon.co.uk> (raw)
Hi,
Quassia is in the clear (as I suspected :-)), I've finally
discovered what was going on with my attempts at running gnus
`agentized'.
It would appear gnus attempts to obtain its information on a given
newsgroup via `LIST ACTIVE group', but if for some reason the server
doesn't support this a `GROUP group' is performed instead. Please tell
me if I'm wildly off track here, I'm completely new to emacs lisp.
My particular ISP's server seems to have a distinct lag between the
article counts returned from `LIST ACTIVE group' as opposed to using
the `GROUP' command. The output of `LIST ACTIVE group' would appear to
be incremented very occasionally, perhaps hours in between, I haven't
timed it. Is this usual, my knowledge of NNTP server operation is
limited?
Anyway this explains why I was seeing many more articles being
downloaded from my ISP by leafnode as opposed to gnus. Leafnode only
uses the `GROUP' command. Having mooched around in nntp.el I noticed:-
(defvoo nntp-server-list-active-group 'try)
I've changed this variable in my .gnus to `nil' and everything seems
okay - *all* articles downloaded. My question is, will/does this break
anything?
--
Regards, Mike.
next reply other threads:[~1998-01-06 20:51 UTC|newest]
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1998-01-06 20:51 Mike McEwan [this message]
1998-01-12 22:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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