From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Subject: Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup?
Date: 21 Apr 2000 11:57:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y9l4s8vzsi4.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "20 Apr 2000 02:17:59 +0200"
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
Lars> sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
>> A FAQ around here from new Gnus users is that, when they start Gnus
>> from scratch, it reads >100Megabytes from the nntp server for hours,
>> and then they give up. I've usually told people to fiddle with
>>
>> `gnus-read-active-file' and `gnus-check-new-newsgroups',
>>
>> but they tell me it doesn't help.
Lars> If `gnus-read-active-file' is `some' (which is the default), Gnus
Lars> shouldn't be reading megs of stuff on startup...
Actually, the problem has turned out to be something else entirely.
Because of some administrative fuckup, my co-worker's machine didn't
have permissions to use the NNTP server in question. 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.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-21 9:57 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] [this message]
2000-04-21 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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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