From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5821 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Superfluous directory reading in nndir groups. Date: 01 Apr 1996 17:46:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146368 1490 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA11233 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 08:40:36 -0800 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:46:50 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:46:49 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5821 Jan Vroonhof writes: > unfortunatly as it's based on the other side of the big lake > connections are quite slow sometimes. Could interactions with the ftp > server be kept to a mimimum? To me it seems I get at least two > "Listing /fpt@ftphpc....." before the actual article is retreived.? It's just that way ange-ftp works. It reads a lot of directory information. "/ftp@ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/emacs/gnus/ding/" has the last week (or so) of the ding list, and should be much faster for those of us on this side of the pond. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."