From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39909 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: matthias@my.gnus.org (Matthias Wiehl) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't mark negative article numbers Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 01:14:02 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <83y9loqt3p.fsf@mail.socha.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175544 30459 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:45:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25384 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2001 06:15:00 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 06:15:00 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15zu4f-0003fi-00; Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:14:33 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:14:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA00819 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:14:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 25372 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2001 06:14:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25367 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2001 06:14:13 -0000 Original-Received: from mail1.kens.com (qmailr@161.58.160.44) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 06:14:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22614 invoked by uid 1004); 3 Nov 2001 06:14:02 -0000 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List In-Reply-To: ("Robin S. Socha"'s message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2001 18:30:48 -0500") X-Face: "/F@HPlz)pi:##Cdw.F2z=W:N'QM/>0s-gyUU0.5''|:x>%YAqFUs2"pEijX(`&4c:9EB#n B{#iu\UQlODwv!oxL=B%HLg3h+p^7D Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) (i386-unknown-openbsd2.9) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39909 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39909 "Robin S. Socha" writes: > Okay, so I say ^ in the summary buffer and then !. No workie. Why? ,----[ ] | Karl Kleinpaste writes: | | Yes. This is a fairly fundamental issue. You see, when you chase to | a parent article, it may or may not have come from within the same | group as the group you're currently reading. If you're reading | gnu.emacs.gnus and chase to an article's parent, you may be reading an | article posted (only) to news.software.readers. What if you don't | read n.s.r? What does it mean to mark an article to which you don't | even have access in the normal case? | | Generally, if Gnus can figure out where in the current group a | chased-to article belongs, it will not number it negatively, but will | show it with its normal within-the-group numbering. It is only | articles from outside the current group that get such treatment. `---- ,----[ ] | Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: | | When you hit `^', Gnus looks to see if it has downloaded the header | for this message already. If so, it uses the article number found | there. But if not, then Gnus fetches the right article by message-id, | but it does not look to find the right article number for this | message-id. Note that the article might come from a different group, | so it's not possible to always assign a good number. `----