[mew-int 02124] NNTP problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

The news server I use has an extremely long expiration time of news.
An entry in tin's `.newsrc' file shows

  comp.text.tex: 1-188530990

It takes ages with mew to start retrieving the headers!  Even if I use
the `last: xxx' option of the `s' key, mew reads far too much data --
more than 20 minutes on my 20kByte/s internet connection.

The tin newsreader has an option `getart_limit' as follows:

   Number of articles to get (getart_limit)

     If getart_limit is > 0 not more than getart_limit articles/group
     are fetched from the server.  If getart_limit is < 0 tin will
     start fetching articles from your first unread minus absolute
     value of getart_limit.  Default is 0, which means no limit.

Setting this to, say, -200, reduces the start-up time with tin to a
useful value -- it now longer tries to fetch data for 70000
articles...

Does mew already have such an option?  I haven't been able to find it.


BTW, if you use `g' to go to a newsgroup `foo', and you haven't
pressed `2Z' yet to retrieve the list of available newsgroup, mew says
something like

  no newsgroup `foo'

This is bad.  Instead, it should say

  no newsgroup `foo'.  Try to update the list of available newsgroups
  with `2Z'.


    Werner