From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49566 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: `A T' and Gmanes humongus groups Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:45:54 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84of66lnr1.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043412396 29769 80.91.224.249 (24 Jan 2003 12:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:46:36 +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 18c3EA-0007jd-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:46:35 +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 18c3Ep-0006sS-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:47:15 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:48:12 -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 GAA05314 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:48:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 89713 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2003 12:46:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 89708 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2003 12:46:58 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 12:46:58 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18c3Fi-000459-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:48:10 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951faa5.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1043412490 15682 217.81.250.165 (24 Jan 2003 12:48:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jan 2003 12:48:10 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SS4x1fEvp7QzA6//yy4mqd8ZKJ8= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49566 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49566 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> I'm thinking it might be possible to somehow tie a date to `A T' so >> one could say `C-u 2 A T' and parse only 2wks back instead of all >> $LARGNUMBER messages. > > You can't know in advance how many headers you have to fetch to get > two week's worth of headers. > > `C-u 1000 A T' will fetch the previous 1000 headers. I wonder if a chunked mode might be useful? Fetch $chunksize headers, look if the root of the thread is in there. If not, fetch another $chunksize headers. Lather, rinse, repeat. -- Ambibibentists unite!