Re: Gnus always fetching all messages from nntp server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Gabe Logan <session13@poczta.fm> writes:

> I'll try to make it clear. I wanted Gnus to make A T command on every
> unread article when entering group buffer. This way, when I have no
> unread articles, Gnus won't fetch any headers from server. But if
> someone will post to a old thread, Gnus will show this message in my
> buffer along with all predecesing posts in this thread. The time Gnus
> will spend on fetching messages for one or few threads should be much
> smaller then when fetching all 80.000+ messages available on server.

There's no way to do that without fetching all the headers for all the
articles in the group.  NNTP doesn't offer a "return headers for the
threads where these articles appear in".  NNTP doesn't even have a
concept of threading.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen