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Faried Nawaz <news@pain.hungry.com> writes:

> My problem is that when I enter some newsgroups (especially the
> gmane ones), gnus spends a long time downloading headers.  This
> occurs even if there are only three or four new messages in the
> newsgroup.  How can I make gnus only download the headers it needs?
>
> I thought gnus-agent was supposed to help here, but it doesn't
> appear to.  Maybe my combination of settings is working against me
> here.

Try setting `nntp-record-commands' to t.  Maybe the *nntp-log* buffer
will reveal the problem.