From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17933 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B.V. Raghav" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to prevent gnus from always downloading full index Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:14:13 +0530 Message-ID: <87bn8hhvo2.fsf@think.bvr.lan> References: <6kwpr6efb6.fsf@shaula.iup.uni-bremen.de> <6kziw2ikh8.fsf@shaula.iup.uni-bremen.de> <87h9i9x0s8.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87a8o1mkkl.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453254284 11438 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2016 01:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 02:44:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLhp8-0001uW-0R for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:44:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLhp2-0006aF-Ul for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:44:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLhp0-0006a0-2D for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLhow-0000Cg-14 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:44:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail2.iitk.ac.in ([202.3.77.186]:34149) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLhov-0000Bv-KW for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in (smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in [172.31.1.22]) by mail2.iitk.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8250010001D1; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:14:14 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from think (unknown [172.20.220.29]) (Authenticated sender: bvraghav) by smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 24CEE48; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 07:14:14 +0530 (IST) In-Reply-To: <87a8o1mkkl.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> ("Adam \=\?iso-8859-1\?Q\?Sj\=F8gren\=22's\?\= message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:32:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 202.3.77.186 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17933 Archived-At: Hi, >>> Ah! This looks suspicious: >>> >>> gnus-fetch-old-headers t I run: GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2015-10-25 on trouble, modified by Debian and the C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers value is nil I have a little different issue. When I subscribe to a group like debian.user -- The history is pretty large, 150MB or so. I had marked it read by using `c' key to catch-up the group. However, now when entering the summary buffer, to check unread mails, I find that Gnus downloads 150M, almost every time to retrieve the history. I am paranoid, and sort of never check unread news there! Thanks, r -- (B.V. Raghav)