154,128k download!

154,128k download!

[Sharon Kimble]

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I have for a long time had a problem with newsgroups, specifically the
large download when I request a number of postings. Today I monitored
it, I requested 50 postings from the debian mailing list on gmane, and
the download ran up to 154,128k! That seems a large amount just for 50
postings! And there is a pause whilst the counter is counting up to its
total. And the situation is the same with other newsgroups on the
various newsgroups servers that I'm using.

This is the part of my "init.org" that specifically relates to
newsgroups - 

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
                         '(nntp "news.gmane.org"
                                        '(nntp "news.gwene.org")
                                        '(nntp "nntp.aioe.org")
                                        '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org")
              (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
              (nntp-port-number 563)))

(setq gnus-visible-headers "^From:\\|^Newsgroup:\\|^Subject:\\|^Date:\\|^Reply-to:\\|^To:")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

How can I get a smaller download, and which is quicker too please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: 154,128k download!

[Teemu Likonen]

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Sharon Kimble [2015-10-16 19:00:39+01] wrote:

> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>                          '(nntp "news.gmane.org"
>                                         '(nntp "news.gwene.org")
>                                         '(nntp "nntp.aioe.org")
>                                         '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org")
>               (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
>               (nntp-port-number 563)))

That's so wrong. Here's the same thing indented correctly so you can
probably see what's wrong:


(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "news.gmane.org"
                    '(nntp "news.gwene.org")
                    '(nntp "nntp.aioe.org")
                    '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org")
                    (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
                    (nntp-port-number 563)))


I _guess_ you want this:


(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "news.gwene.org"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "nntp.aioe.org"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org"
                    (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
                    (nntp-port-number 563)))

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