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I'd like to start using Gnus to read mailing lists via nntp/Gmane. Works fine so far, but each time I press RET on a group name in the *Group* buffer, Gnus seems to download a lot of data (in case of the org-mode list, some 30+M, which takes 10+ seconds).

Maybe I don't understand the workings of NNTP and Gnus properly, but shouldn't it be possible to somehow cache these data locally? Waiting many seconds for entering a group seems to be a waste of time, especially since at this point, Gnus already knows the number of unread messages ...

asjo
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Turns out the problem lies with the default Spacemacs configuration I was using.

The solution was provided to me on the Gnus mailing list:

  1. Set gnus-fetch-old-headers to nil
  2. Set gnus-keep-backlog to 20
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