Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups?

[Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Joe Fineman wrote:

>> None of the four is a binary newsgroup.
>
> [ Please reply to the list! This is from the mail you sent to me: ]

Sorry!  I meant to reply to the newsgroup, and was puzzled when it
didn't show up.  I must have hit R instead of F.

>> There was no response in 20 min.  Indeed, the shell (an Emacs
>> shell) seems to have died.

Subsequently I got the same result with one of the newsgroups I *can*
read.

I tried it in the Cygwin shell.  The shell survived, but I got a
message "502 Permission denied".

> Does it work in cmd.exe?

I don't know what cmd.exe is.  How do I get to it?

>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> most-positive-fixnum's value is 134217727
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So groups with 100 million postings should work.

Well, the number is (or purports to be) only 30 million.  The current
state of my *Group* buffer is

       0: nnml:mail.misc 
      88: alt.politics.libertarian 
   30221113: alt.usage.english 
       1: gnu.announce 
      25: gnu.emacs.bug 
       6: gnu.emacs.gnus 
       6:*gnu.emacs.help 
       2: ne.transportation 
   29993938: sci.lang 
      16: soc.motss 
   29988010: alt.suicide.methods 
      30: alt.quotations 
   30058577: comp.text.tex 

>>> gnu.emacs.gnus isn't moderated.
>>
>> I so interpreted the (m) in the Group buffer.

Which is now gone!  Perhaps I hallucinated it.

I also tried another email (yesterday noon) to Wolfgang M. Weyand at
Motzarella.

Thank you for your patience.
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