From: Richmond <p1299721@protonmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is gnus reading when it says `nntp read NNN'
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 09:06:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <847eztx5l1.fsf@example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h8z94l2v.fsf@local.lan>
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> When gnus is asked to retrieve lots of back messages from a group I
> see `nntp read' followed by some numbers advances as each line
> appears.
>
> What is it that is being read ... server active file.... list of
> messages... each line of messages ... what?
I should think it is retrieving the message headers. That's what my gnus
does when I select /o to retrieve old messages.
If I want to download the articles using the agent I mark them all for
download and then download them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-30 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 11:49 Harry Putnam
2017-06-30 8:06 ` Richmond [this message]
2017-07-01 13:45 ` Harry Putnam
2017-07-01 14:52 ` Adam Sjøgren
2017-08-08 14:13 ` Harry Putnam
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