From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5631 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Catching up Mail Groups Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:31:24 +0100 Message-ID: <199603201931.UAA07595@durin.uio.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146207 890 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:36:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA00574 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:02:02 -0800 Original-Received: from mons.uio.no (6089@mons.uio.no [129.240.200.26]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:31:28 +0100 Original-Received: from ulrik.uio.no by mons.uio.no with local-SMTP (PP) id <04631-0@mons.uio.no>; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:31:25 +0100 Original-Received: by durin.uio.no ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:31:24 +0100 Original-To: jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) In-reply-to: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5631 jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) writes: > >>>>> "AS" == Aharon Schkolnik 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 ) > 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