From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:17:25 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <87ljvrgwtm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87prl4iqqb.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226349646 24203 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2008 20:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 21:41:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzdZy-00032C-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzdYr-0001B2-6R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 85 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1226348250 02 n14477 vu0ClXf1QNNDScL 081110 20:17:30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: VxkqQkZeoe3a7zonxx-Cf9ZHnwC3C8nC85yEN-aO7YJQWziqmX8KQw X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML; )7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+; CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf, d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OTV9ZYPb/tK3R0MfVPrWPyDH5bc= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164292 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59627 Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Joe Fineman wrote: > Reiner Steib writes: > >> 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. > > None of the four is a binary newsgroup. [ Please reply to the list! This is from the mail you sent to me: ] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > /cygdrive/c/usr/own/f/p/networks/motzarella> telnet news.motzarella.org nntp > Trying 85.214.105.209... > Connected to news.motzarella.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > 200 news.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.5 ready (posting ok). > MODE READER > GROUP comp.text.tex > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > There was no response in 20 min. Indeed, the shell (an Emacs shell) > seems to have died. Does it work in cmd.exe? Or can anyone else with access to motzarella show the result? On one of the biggest news provides in Germany, I get: ,---- | GROUP comp.text.tex | 211 3562 328642 332246 comp.text.tex `---- I doubt that motzarella has an older archive (higher article count) unless there some bug. > > The maximum number Gnus can handle depends on your Emacs version and > > architecture. > > > > What is the output of v most-positive-fixnum RET? > > You may need to load cl before: M-x load-library RET cl RET > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > most-positive-fixnum's value is 134217727 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So groups with 100 million postings should work. >>> I have tried twice to post this query on gnu.emacs.gnus (a >>> moderated group), >> >> gnu.emacs.gnus isn't moderated. > > I so interpreted the (m) in the Group buffer. If it is not moderated, > then it is all the more mysterious that I cannot succeed in posting to > it. All newsservers I have, don't list it as moderated: ,---- | # news.[...].de | 201 news.[...].de InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.4 (20060818 snapshot) ready (no posting). | 215 Descriptions in form "group description". | gnu.emacs.gnus News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in English). | de.admin.news.announce RFDs, CFVs, Zwischen- und Endergebnisse. (Moderated) | 205 . | # news.[...].de | 200 news.[...].de DNEWS Version 5.6f3,, S0, posting OK | 215 list of newsgroup names follow | de.admin.news.announce RFDs, CFVs, Zwischen- und Endergebnisse. (Moderated) | gnu.emacs.gnus News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in English). `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/