Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups?

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Nov 04 2008, Joe Fineman wrote:

> I run Gnus v5.10.6 under Emacs 21.3.1 under Windows XP (alas).
> Because Verizon has truncated its service, I recently signed on to a
> latitudinarian news server (Motzarella).  I find that four of the
> newsgroups I want to read come up with backlogs on the order of 30
> million postings.  

Unless it is some binary newsgroup, this seem unlikely.  Please verify
the numbers using the following command in a shell and show us the
output.

  telnet news.motzarella.org nntp                          <== You type this!
  Trying 85.214.105.209...
  Connected to news.motzarella.org.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  200 news.[...] INN 2.4.5 ready (posting ok).
  MODE READER                                              <== You type this!
  GROUP name.of.the.group                                  <== You type this!

The maximum number Gnus can handle depends on your Emacs version and
architecture.

What is the output of <f1> v most-positive-fixnum RET?
You may need to load cl before: M-x load-library RET cl RET

> I have tried twice to post this query on gnu.emacs.gnus (a moderated
> group), 

gnu.emacs.gnus isn't moderated.

Bye, Reiner.
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