From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18774 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to stop Agent from fetching headers of uninteresting Groups? Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:08:16 -0500 Message-ID: <87r2s16str.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: <878tf8j1hs.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <87indrsa3m.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87374mmvu5.fsf@moondust.localdomain> 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 1513015757 303 195.159.176.226 (11 Dec 2017 18:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:09:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 11 19:09:13 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 1eOSVt-0008LL-7a for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:09:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOSVy-00051g-Um for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:09:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOSVO-0004jF-2f for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:08:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOSVK-0003RJ-1j for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:08:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53707 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eOSVJ-0003Pu-RF for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eOSV7-0006Te-Bq for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:08:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:7lmtOH3pr5RiSYIduJRqQm5fVEA= 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:18774 Archived-At: 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.