From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Getting News still difficult...
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:47:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84r8a7mbe0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87el675hoo.fsf@gmx.net>
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
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2003-02-15 10:57 ` Kai Großjohann
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