Re: what is a good newsgroup to experiment with my gnus nntp settings?

[Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu>]

Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu> writes:

> ... In the end, I usually download
> all the headers, for instance ... across a
> dual boot. Unfortunately, I think this has provoked the gmane to block
> my ISP, though I was lucky enough I think the block was removed soon
> after.

Hooray! Finally have a solution to stop worrying about the provocative
downloading of all headers, with 

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-parameters 
      '(
        ...
        ("nntp.*"
         (display . 100))
        ))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I wonder why I couldn't get the following to work? 

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-parameters 
      '(
        ...
        ("nntp.*"
         (gnus-large-newsgroup 100))
        ))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Also, I'm curious why Gnus sometimes eats the empty line before the
formatted region starting at

,----
| --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
`----


Brady