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Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups?
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Joe Fineman |
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Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups? |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:17:33 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
Thank you, Ted Zlatanov and Sivaram Neelakantan, for trying to help.
I am rather nervous about changing things that I do not understand,
but I have at last steeled myself to try to follow your advice.
Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I had the same problem with the same free news server
> account. I don't remember exactly what I did to solve it. :(
> I believe, after subscribing to comp.text.tex and comp.shell, in the
> Group Buffer, I entered the group as C-u 50 RET and did a catch up
> within it with a 'c'.
I did that, but there was no apparent difference: Nothing happened
within a reasonable time.
> then quit it and configure the Group Parameter for that the NG.
> And I'm not sure whether I set the Group Parameters (G P)
I presume you mean G p. G P does nothing.
> to the following BEFORE I entered the group or not.
> ((display . 150))
I tried that, though I am not sure I succeeded -- when I did C-c C-c
to finish, nothing happened, and I had to do C-g to get the cursor
blinking again. It had no effect; C-u 50 RET did not succeed in
entering the group.
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:10:17 -0500 Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> wrote:
> JF> I run Gnus v5.10.6 under Emacs 21.3.1 under Windows XP (alas).
> JF> Because Verizon has truncated its service, I recently signed on to a
> JF> latitudinarian news server (Motzarella). I find that four of the
> JF> newsgroups I want to read come up with backlogs on the order of 30
> JF> million postings. When I try to do catchup (C) on one of them, it
> JF> stalls & eventually gives an out-of-memory message. (The first time,
> JF> when I let it try for a longish time, it ended up giving interminable
> JF> beeps & hanging both Emacs and Windows; I had to do a hardware
> JF> shutdown.)
> JF> What does one do in such a situation? I see nothing about it in info
> JF> or Google or the Gnus FAQ.
> I've never seen this, but it should be fairly easy to edit the
> newsrc.eld file and catch up from there. Make sure you're not running
> Gnus. For example I have:
> ("nntp+news.albasani.net:comp.risks" 3 ((1 . 148)) ((seen (118 . 148))) (nntp
> "news.albasani.net"))
> Which says that 118-148 have been seen.
I found the apposite section for comp.text.tex and changed it to
("comp.text.tex" 3 ((1 . 230036)) ((seen 229707 . 230036)) (reply
221367 228504 228579))
There was nothing corresponding to the (nntp "..."). When I tried to
use Gnus, I got an error message.
> You may run into problems with very large numbers as far as Emacs is
> concerned. There's no easy fix there but you should report it to
> the Gnus mailing list nevertheless so you can get some answers and
> maybe someone will work on it.
I think, first, I will try again to get the attention of Motzarella.
Perhaps my first attempt got classified as spam for some reason.
Thank you again for your patience.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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