* Re: Getting News still difficult... [not found] <87heb5g6vl.fsf@lux99.home> @ 2003-02-15 10:57 ` Kai Großjohann [not found] ` <87el675hoo.fsf@gmx.net> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-02-15 10:57 UTC (permalink / raw) upro <upro@gmx.net> writes: > I was getteing the first (one!) article from comp.os.linux.networking, > and gnus read 4500 KB before it displayed a two-message thread! You mean you hit RET on the group name and then you typed "-1" when it asked you how many articles to download? See the section "Customization" in the Gnus info file. It has suggestions that might be useful. -- A turnip curses Elvis ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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* Re: Getting News still difficult... [not found] ` <87el675hoo.fsf@gmx.net> @ 2003-02-17 10:47 ` Kai Großjohann 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-02-17 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw) upro <upro@gmx.net> writes: > kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> upro <upro@gmx.net> writes: >> >>> I was getteing the first (one!) article from comp.os.linux.networking, >>> and gnus read 4500 KB before it displayed a two-message thread! >> >> You mean you hit RET on the group name and then you typed "-1" when >> it asked you how many articles to download? >> >> See the section "Customization" in the Gnus info file. It has >> suggestions that might be useful. > > > Now I inserted gthe following lines into my .gnus.el: > (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) > (setq gnus-read-active-file nil) > (setq gnus-show-threads nil) > (setq gnus-use-cross-reference nil) > > ... and now gnus takes ages (really ages!) to start... :-( > > Another error of mine?? Have you tried other values? The docs say that gnus-fetch-old-headers equals `some' can be slow. Is it the problem? -- A turnip curses Elvis ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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