From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29969 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup? Date: 21 Apr 2000 11:57:07 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166563 5832 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:16:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A264D051E for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 05:57:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAB02541; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 04:57:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 21 Apr 2000 04:57:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA23242 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 04:57:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (lesbains.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE504D051E for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 05:57:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (brabantio [134.2.12.25]) by lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6602E4A5 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:57:09 +0200 (MST) Original-Received: (from sperber@localhost) by informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA32544; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:57:07 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "20 Apr 2000 02:17:59 +0200" Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Kastor & Polydeukes) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29969 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29969 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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