From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50301 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why article numbers? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:52:42 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84n0kn9vdh.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <841y2jzrgm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84el60hvg9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045994049 29048 80.91.224.249 (23 Feb 2003 09:54:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 09:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mspj-0007YN-00 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:54:07 +0100 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 18mspY-0006oh-00; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:53:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:54:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA01763 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:54:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 31883 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2003 09:53:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31878 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2003 09:53:39 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 23 Feb 2003 09:53:39 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18mt41-0006Up-00 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:08:53 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e610.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1045994933 24945 217.225.230.16 (23 Feb 2003 10:08:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Feb 2003 10:08:53 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wk4S7azVr1IAc8g+XkVGr94pFmY= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50301 Simon Josefsson writes: > How would you handle two messages with the same message-id? Or no > message-id (think drafts)? Since it is possible to create that > scenario, Gnus should IMHO handle it. I think an abstract data type > separated from the message itself is more flexible. I see two > problems with the use of integers today: handling sets of integers can > be slow, and the integer limit in emacs is too small. Do you think dealing with a set of 1,000,000 integers is slower than dealing with a set of 1,000,000 strings, say? For the integer limit, well, err, somebody should do bignums in Emacs Lisp :-) > Regarding the nnimap issue, a better solution would IMHO be to fix it > to do proper re-syncing on UIDVALIDITY changes, which it probably > would have to do even if message-id's are used to index articles since > IMAP uses integers to retrieve articles anyway. Is this possible? -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.