From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23532 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tony Lam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Being forced to deal with message numbers and frustrated Date: 24 Jun 1999 10:58:29 -0700 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <4jyso7hqy4a.fsf@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> References: <4jywvwuyde2.fsf_-_@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> <4jy4sjy1s6k.fsf@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> <99Jun23.201735edt.13841-3@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161247 2521 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:47:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15237 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:53:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB01794; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:50:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:50:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19845 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:50:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15114 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:49:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.144.134.6]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA26241 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from philly.Eng.Sun.COM (philly.Eng.Sun.COM [129.144.140.126]) by engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/ENSMAIL,v1.6) with ESMTP id MAA16760 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from tonyl@localhost) by philly.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) id MAA00330; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:49:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-4 I); Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Norbert Koch's message of "24 Jun 1999 17:37:43 +0200" Original-Lines: 24 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23532 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23532 * "Norbert" == Norbert Koch writes: Norbert> In message , Norbert> nospam2159+ding@daimi.au.dk (Peter von der Ahé - at home) wrote: >> To illustrate what the problem, please try doing the following: >> >> (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 2) >> >> in .gnus.el >> >> Create a new nnml group with G m, copy 3 messages to this group. >> Mark them all as read. Delete the article with number 2. Exit the >> group. Enter the group. You will now be asked how many articles you >> want to see, even though there only is 2 articles in the group. This >> can be very annoying when you have larges mail groups with gaps. Norbert> Well, after recognising this problem, you could mark all Norbert> articles and respool them (B r). This should ease the Norbert> trouble, shouldn't it? Not if the group has cached articles. Tony