From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3807 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Moving from one server to another Date: 02 Nov 1995 04:40:52 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199510310129.RAA29350@desiree.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144637 27352 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:10:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:10:37 +0000 (UTC) X-From-Line: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Wed Nov 1 20:54:26 1995 Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from moonbase_v.moonvalley.com (moonbase_v.moonvalley.com [204.212.162.1]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA05437 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 20:54:21 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by moonbase_v.moonvalley.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA20553 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 20:48:39 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 04:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 04:40:53 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Felix Lee's message of Mon, 30 Oct 1995 17:28:53 -0800 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3807 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3807 Felix Lee writes: > there really isn't any way around requesting mounds of data. if you > XOVER to fetch message-IDs for each group, that's reasonably > efficient. > > otherwise, NEWNEWS. oh wait, NEWNEWS only gives you message-ids. > hmm.. Some server support the "XPAT" (no, wait, it's called something else) which allows you to say "XPAT MESSAGE-ID 1-1000". Or something like that. It's very fast when dealing with headers that are in the .overview files. -- Home is where the cat is.