From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups? Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:26:47 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87prl4iqqb.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226338901 13614 80.91.229.10 (10 Nov 2008 17:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:41:41 +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 19:19:54 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzbMg-0000Vo-2A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:19:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kzalf-00030U-45 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:41:39 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18cttkAyTJoPJPdm5UA07YggCmC/aBQEZJ4bsNMSzcqL8S1oAap+wWXwglVT2GHEEPyCyowXx2cbbaAUdh92kOx1NYmdmMy2cIW+cKpW3u2yataoDkP4siI1jvr4UeuH0FxyKagUbtoRg== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:25:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/67PwNqMA9+4GmsUYIcHtbi5jAZX92MZs= Cancel-Lock: sha1:+BYAaY1X6uHYhuFSgD3ybH6c1tU= sha1:b1t5G7qMfgLg/mt9yzK5jaFLLs8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164264 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:59605 Archived-At: 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 verify the numbers using the following command in a shell and > show us the output. I'll give this a try. Thank you. > What is the output of v most-positive-fixnum RET? > You may need to load cl before: M-x load-library RET cl RET Ditto. >> 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. Thank you for your attention. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: The idea of appearing modest appeals to my vanity. :||