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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup?
Date: 21 Apr 2000 13:37:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ya67r8g6.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y9l4s8vzsi4.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>

sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

> The server would send:
> 
> 480 Authentication required for command
> 
> ... but Gnus would just plod on, and fill up Emacs with zillions of
> copies of this message.  I haven't studied the problem in detail,
> which is why I haven't followed up.

That sounds like nntp.el isn't checking for error messages when trying 
to do the `some' active file retrieval.  Could you try to set
`nntp-record-commands' to t and see what commands Gnus are sending out 
when it does this?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-21 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-06 14:17 Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-20  0:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-21  9:57   ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-21 11:37     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2000-04-23 13:05     ` Markus Leypold
2000-04-23 19:10       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-24  0:49       ` Russ Allbery
2000-04-25  8:23         ` Markus Leypold

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