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Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups?
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Joe Fineman |
Subject: |
Re: Gnus: How to catch up huge newsgroups? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:09:38 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) |
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 10 2008, Joe Fineman wrote:
>
>> I tried it in the Cygwin shell. The shell survived, but I got a
>> message "502 Permission denied".
>
> Ah, it needs authentication (The password is shown on the screen, so
> be careful!):
>
> $ telnet news.motzarella.org nntp
> MODE READER
> AUTHINFO USER yourname
> AUTHINFO PASS yourpassword
> GROUP comp.text.tex
That did the job. The result for comp.text.tex was indeed 30288629.
So evidently it's for real.
Oddly, however, the result for alt.politics.libertarian, which I have
been reading without difficulty, is also huge: 30645382.
I repeated the experiment of doing c on one of the problem groups in
the Groups buffer. After a few minutes, it beeped and gave an Emacs
low-memory warning. This time, however, it did not crash anything.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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