From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus, # of headers to retrieve
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:02:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yxl2cs4.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa8k7h6do2h.fsf@suntong.personal.users.sourceforge.net>
* Tong * <sun_tong@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> When entering a big newsgroup, Gnus will prompt me something like
> "number of headers to retrieve". No matter how little I specified,
> Gnus will always retrieve the whole list first, then show me the
> number of messages I specified, with '{50 (+264714 more)}' showing
> on the status bar.
It only does that if you have `gnus-fetch-old-headers' set.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-16 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-15 22:51 * Tong *
2003-01-16 18:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-01-17 6:57 ` u.r. faust
2003-01-19 6:08 ` * Tong *
[not found] ` <84hec914ek.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
[not found] ` <87lm16t620.fsf@dingbat.katzenjammer.org>
2003-01-28 7:12 ` Kai Großjohann
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