From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7121 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xyblor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Group subscribe tab-completion Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:44:13 -0400 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145565620 32454 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2006 20:40:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:40:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 20 22:40:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWfwh-0004mI-9p for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:40:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWfwg-0000yi-Qr for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:40:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!tethys.csu.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!router2.astraweb.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!TEKSAVVY.COM-Free-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m8QjiYUYQugbnKYUatLM0vbFNiA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: d1e624447e4886b5d24f015540 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77303 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7121 Archived-At: Karl Kleinpaste writes: > xyblor writes: >> Shouldn't the newsrc.eld file save a list of all the available >> newsgroups, so I don't have to read the whole active file every time? > > Saving the entire list of groups is a very expensive (in bandwidth and > storage space) thing to do because there are tens of thousands of > groups known to large installations; far too heavy a cost to outweigh > the small benefit of the very occasional time that one really wants > that list. (Even on my small server, the active file is half a > megabyte.) I'm not proposing to download the entire active file every time I start gnus, I just want to save it once so that tab-completion works. I thought that was how it's supposed to work; then any new groups added to the server would be added to the list in .newsrc according to gnus-check-new-newsgroups. This arrangement should use *less* bandwidth, since I would only download the list once, instead of every time I want to browse it. I'm confused about all this; maybe I'll look in the "Agent" menu, since it seems like I'm trying to do something "unplugged". Thanks for the tip about server mode.