nntp-nov-gap not working?

[Nuutti Kotivuori]

I have a group which has old ticked articles which are not cached -
and my gnus-fetch-old-headers is 200. So, if I I think correctly, it
should fetch the last 200 messages, but also xover information for the
old ticked messages. My nntp-nov-gap is the regular 5, so I should be
getting gaps all over the place for the very old messages - is this
right?

Well what happens when I check things with nntp-record-commands is:

20010822T151811.639 localhost GROUP sfnet.harrastus.itsepuolustus
20010822T151811.650 localhost XOVER 18665-19338

As we can see, no gaps in fetching.

Is this my error or is there a bug somewhere?

-- Naked

[Simon Josefsson]

Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.k...@smarttrust.com> writes:

If `gnus-fetch-old-headers' is non-nil, nntp.el will not use gaps.

I guess implementing gaps with a null `gnus-fetch-old-headers' was
complicated enough not to try it with non-nil one.