[mew-int 01205] Re: new newsgroup 'catchup'

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: Jonathan Meeks <lists at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 01177] new newsgroup 'catchup'

> It works for some newsgroups but not others.  For gnu.g++.help it
> works fine.  For comp.lang.java and comp.lang.c++ it does not.  For
> these groups Mew always wants to retrieve all of the messages (many
> thousands of messages), even when I do an "update" after a
> "last:<num>". The only difference I can determine between the group
> that works and those that do not is the number of posts waiting --
> gnu.g++.help only had a few hundred unread messages. 

I tried this on a newsgroup which contains a few hundred unread
messages. However, I could not re-produce it.

You can see what's going on as follows:

* Set mew-debug to 'net.
	(setq mew-debug 'net)

Then access to a newsgroup. Communications with your NNTP server are
recorded in the *Mew debug* buffer. Observe the buffer to see what
happened.

* Note that the ID of the last (read) message is contained in the file
  named ".mew-msgid". You can find this file in ~/Mail/.nntp/. Observe
  its content on every communication.

--Kazu