From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15655 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problem entering Foreign Groups Date: 16 Jul 1998 02:53:24 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154648 23296 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:57:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA19198 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:57:56 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00746 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAS32240; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:52:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA17026 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:52:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from typhoon.dircon.co.uk (zcaceog@bh-cw34-189.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.61.189]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22712 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:52:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.dircon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA16518; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:53:25 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "15 Jul 1998 16:09:32 +0200" Original-Lines: 43 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.24/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15655 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > But what about the cause of the problem? It seems that for some reason > > Gnus ignores the information it gets back from the server when a group > > is entered. > > > > E.g. > > > > GROUP comp.os.linux.misc > > 211 994 247830 248828 comp.os.linux.misc selected > > > > Gnus still starts its search based on old information in the > > .newsrc-localhost.eld file. Instead of only calling XOVER or HEAD of > > articles in the range 247830-248828 it calls XOVER/HEAD for all > > articles listed in the .eld file in this case starting with article > > 247211. > > So, does that mean that these groups aren't activated before you > attempt entering them? I'm not quite sure what you mean by activated. Before entering the groups I have to do "J j" "J j" "g" as I am on an intermittent pup connection. Without the J j's Gnus would just hang if I disconnect then reconnect. > Does `M-g' before entering help? It might help on an individual group basis but I haven't found a group I can test it on yet. I do know that M-g doesn't do anything when I just want to download all groups with "J s". The process still freezes. The problem is that when "g" is pressed Gnus calls GROUP for every group but then it just ignores the information it gets back and does its own thing. It uses the .eld file and first tries to access every article not already read, whether the article exists on the server or not, starting with the first unread (according to .eld) article. -- Eze Ogwuma