From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48244
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: Gnus still doesn't count messages properly
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:35:21 +0100
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <84y969n2di.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
References: <1034671636.3dabd6149deef@imp.free.fr> <m3bs357nvs.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041119537 28227 80.91.224.249 (28 Dec 2002 23:52:17 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 23:52:17 +0000 (UTC)
Return-path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from util1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.22])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 18SQka-0007L9-00
	for <ding-account@gmane.org>; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:52:16 +0100
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists)
	by util1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.10)
	id 18SQUn-0001Kj-00; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 17:35:57 -0600
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 28 Dec 2002 17:36:49 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244])
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07361
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 17:36:36 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 18SQUZ-0007s6-00
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 00:35:43 +0100
Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu
Original-Path: not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding
Original-Lines: 16
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50876b5f.dip.t-dialin.net
Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041118543 30258 80.135.107.95 (28 Dec 2002 23:35:43 GMT)
Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Dec 2002 23:35:43 GMT
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50
 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:3pAoQld13wUOG7VwF5rYkxdc2QA=
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48244
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48244

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!