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Re: [leafnode-list] Newbie question - 2 - fetching groups



Steve Mansfield <syntax@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This may be more of a fetchnews issue, but:
>
> It seems that everytime I run fetchnews, it downloads the complete group list 
> from my ISP's news server before downloading messages, which naturally takes 
> a long time (45k+ groups). Is there any way to stop it doing this? I presume 
> 'noactive = 1' has nothing to do with this.

It might work, but the proper way to get rid of this is to find out why
fetchnews does not complete successfully. If the smtp server you
configured (see the other mail) refuses NNTP connections, then this
behaviour is normal.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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