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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Gnus still doesn't count messages properly
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:35:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84y969n2di.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bs357nvs.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> So the backend would have to return the actual range of articles in
> the group during the activation process, which (for most backends) is
> costly, and for some is impossible.

But for some backends, it's possible and easy, so the backend
interface could be extended.

Isn't there already a way, similar to extra headers in NOV data, to
have the backend return extra information?  Then Gnus would just have
to make use of it.

But I've said before it's easy, and then it turned out to be hard...
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-28 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15  8:47 Jérôme Marant
2002-12-28 22:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-28 23:35   ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-12-28 23:56     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 17:15       ` Simon Josefsson

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