Re: Failing to retrieve all messages from group

[Dan Davison]

Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to retrieve old messages from the tramp mailing
>> list. However, I'm only getting 2 messages,
>>
>>        2: nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.tramp
>>
>> even if I do something like C-u 1 0 0 RET in the group buffer.
>>
>> This is despite the listing from the *Server* buffer showing that the
>> group has 7404 messages:
>>
>>     7404: gmane.emacs.tramp
>>
>> I've tried un-subscribing and re-subscribing, but each time the group
>> comes up with 2 messages. What should I try next?
>
> Check the article numbers.  It's possible that there really are just two
> articles, but they are numbered 7402 apart.  Not sure how the server
> would get that way, but I can imagine a few possibilities.

I'm not sure how to obtain an article number; I used
gnus-summary-show-all-headers, which shows

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tramp:7486
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp/7486>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tramp:7487
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.tramp/7487>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

. If these are the article numbers then that's not the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Dan