Re: prompting for large no of headers

[ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> It's not a NOV issue.
> 
> Gnus uses a estimate on the size of the mailbox, namely
> highest-article-number - lowest-article-number. This estimate is a bad
> one if you have a UID gaps (which is normal). If this estimate turns
> out to be bigger than `gnus-large-newsgroup' you'll be asked how many
> headers to fetch.
> 
> I use
> 
> (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 10000)
> 
> to "fix" it.

Oops!!  I thought it couldn't be that problem because I had set mine
to a ridiculously (I thought) high value of 1500.  I suppose I'll
change mine to ten thousand too.

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--Ed Cashin							
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