From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48642 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Concerning marks and the back end. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:23:25 -0500 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <86ptrfc6oy.fsf@asfast.com> References: <86fzsc4ii2.fsf@asfast.com> <84k7hnjxqi.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <86y9638l7i.fsf@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041560620 32243 80.91.224.249 (3 Jan 2003 02:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:23:40 +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 18UHUo-0008Nb-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 03:23:38 +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 18UHUv-0005lq-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:23:45 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:24:38 -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 UAA26739 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:24:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26370 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2003 02:23:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26365 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 02:23:28 -0000 Original-Received: from home.acholado.net (HELO home) (Potamus@216.27.138.216) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 02:23:28 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1001) by home with local; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:23:25 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:46:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48642 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Lloyd Zusman writes: > >> I'm talking about the case where all messages are already marked as >> read, and I want to enter the group. If there is a several-thousand >> message backlog of already-read messages in that group, it takes a huge >> amount of time to construct the summary buffer. For example, one such >> group has 5670 old messages as of this posting. >> >> Not fetching headers for most of this several-thousand message backlog >> would speed things up immensely. > > If you only ask for the, say, three last articles, you should only > get the article headers for (approx.) the last three articles. Well, I guess you're talking about my typing something like ... 5 0 ... when pointing to the group in the Groups buffer to see only that last (approx.) 50 unread articles. I had forgotten about that and it indeed works for me. So for the time being, this is a big help. Nonetheless, I'm wondering if there's a way to mark articles in such a way that these marks are stored in the .marks file (instead of the back end), so that articles marked in this way will never be queried from the back end unless some special command is typed. It seems like that would be a nice feature. Well, maybe in my not-very-voluminous-yet-more-than-nonexistent spare time I'll look at the source and see if I could hack^H^H^H^Hcode up something like that. > Or is it the .marks code that goes through a lot more articles than > that? I'm not sure what you're asking, but I think the answer is no :) ... given that the above test worked for me. > -- > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com