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Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> > It would seem that it reacts inappropriately to getting a lot of 423
> > lines.  
> 
> But Gnus still downloads headers after all the 423 messages.

It sends out a lot of HEAD commands, and then it counts how many
responses it gets back.  It's the counting that infloops.

> > > Why was "XOVERVIEW 7095-7095" called? was it because the result of "XOVER
> > > 7095-7095" was "."?
> 
> > Yes.
> 
> But XOVERVIEW is not a valid command on my server so Gnus then calls
> HEAD repeatedly. 

It guesses that both XOVER and XOVERVIEW fails.

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