From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18646 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: What is gnus reading when it says `nntp read NNN' Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 09:06:18 +0100 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <847eztx5l1.fsf@example.com> References: <86h8z94l2v.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498810006 22033 195.159.176.226 (30 Jun 2017 08:06:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:06:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 10:06:40 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dQqwn-0005BZ-Ry for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:06:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQqwp-0007Or-SQ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:06:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQqwi-0007Oc-0i for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQqwd-0004MT-0J for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38138 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQqwc-0004L8-PO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dQqwV-0004Y8-A1 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:06:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-No-Archive: Yes Cancel-Lock: sha1:dcw3MUHXzOgR+QqmKIlNwrT51oY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" X-Gmane-Expiry: 2017-07-14 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18646 Archived-At: Harry Putnam 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.