From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Catching up Mail Groups
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:31:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199603201931.UAA07595@durin.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wo68bz681a.fsf@cheux.ecs.umass.edu>
jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) writes:
> >>>>> "AS" == Aharon Schkolnik <aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il> writes:
>
> AS> Now, I noticed another thing which might be related. When I
> AS> entered the group to see exactly what is in it (using <ctrl-u> <spc>)
> AS> gnus asked me if I wanted to see all 1703 articles ! Why would it
> AS> think there are 1703 articles ?
>
> Because you have saved those 36 articles over a period of time, and the
> lowest number is, say 50 and the highest is 1753. Since Gnus is a
> newsreader, it assumes that the article count is continuous between the
> lowest and highest article numbers.
"since it's a newsreader"? That assumtion can be _very_ wrong in news:
For example if the earliest article is crossposted to a low-volume
newsgroup with slower expiry, or if the article has a very late expiry
date -- for example because it's a FAQ posting, or group charter, or
some other article which considers itself more important than others in
the group.
Regards,
Hallvard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-20 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-20 9:24 Aharon Schkolnik
1996-03-20 16:31 ` Jack Vinson
1996-03-20 19:31 ` Hallvard B Furuseth [this message]
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1996-03-20 4:39 Aharon (Al) Schkolnik
1996-03-20 6:56 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1996-03-20 8:13 ` Greg Stark
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