From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18647 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: What is gnus reading when it says `nntp read NNN' Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:45:43 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <86mv8onud4.fsf@local.lan> References: <86h8z94l2v.fsf@local.lan> <847eztx5l1.fsf@example.com> 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 1498916777 686 195.159.176.226 (1 Jul 2017 13:46:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 13:46:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 01 15:46:13 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 1dRIir-00084N-FZ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:46:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRIiw-00055h-L8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:46:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRIiu-00055c-3p for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRIiq-0007Og-8s for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:46:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45576 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRIiq-0007Lt-2i for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRIic-0007L4-BG for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:45:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sudh7lLojHLGYeNdm5HJLVERxX8= 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18647 Archived-At: Richmond writes: > 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. So do the numbers represent lines read? or characters maybe? Maybe one set of nov info... for each line?