Subscription problems and gmane

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/14/2014 12:37 AM, thufir wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:49:51 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>
>
>> I have mine set to dl a max of 2000 and never seemed to have a problem
>> with it and I haven't done that in quite awhile.
>
>
> That sounds like a bad idea.  Why a hard limit?
>
> I use pan, and for gmane and mozilla news servers I just download the
> headers.  Unless you have a really slow connection, why would you use pan
> to download message bodies in bulk?
>
> An alternative is to run leafnode and then connect pan to leafnode; this
> is nice because it runs as a cron job and can download headers and body,
> but, unless you have an incredibly slow connection I can't imagine why
> you'd need to use it for gmane...?
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Thufir
>
>

I'm not sure where you got the idea that I use pan.  I use Thunderbird. 
I set the 2000 limit when I subscribe to a group. Some of them have 
100,000 messages available and I normally don't want them all.  I leave 
the 2000 limit in place because I then have access to them very quickly 
without going to online archives.

Regards,  Jim