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From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to stop Agent from fetching headers of uninteresting Groups?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:08:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2s16str.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87374mmvu5.fsf@moondust.localdomain>

At 09:55 -0500 on Thursday 2017-12-07, N. Jackson wrote:
>
> All my news groups are currently at a subscribedness level of 3
> (the default), so I'll bump up the subscribedness of the groups I
> want the agent to retrieve anything for to level 2 and set
> `gnus-agent-handle-level' to 2 as well. This should solve my
> problem in a tidy way.

Following up for completeness, this worked brilliantly. Now it takes
about 20 seconds to bring down all the news I want for offline reading,
compared to the 20 minutes or so I was suffering from previously!

N.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-14 15:58 N. Jackson
2017-11-30 21:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-07 14:55   ` N. Jackson
2017-12-07 17:13     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-12-11 18:08     ` N. Jackson [this message]

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