172: How do I get rid of flashing messages in GNUS for slow connections?
  
  GNUS outputs "NNTP: Reading..." message and then clears them, over and
  over.  In version 3.14.1 there is a variable named nntp-debug-read that
  can help.  Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> wrote a fix.  Others have also written
  fixes.