From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: utterly bogus "How many articles from ... (available ..., default ...)"
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vso28yr.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m362ntylkv.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
On Sun, Jun 26 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>
>> You know, this line
>> How many articles from mail.debianbugs (available 388, default 200):
>> is misleading.
>
> 388 is the max possible number of articles, which is all the info Gnus
> has access to.
I think, the OP suggests, that the back-end should provide more or better
information, if possible. The nnml back-end for example could provide the
real number of available articles. When this information is not evaluable
(nntp), then Gnus could fall back to (n = 1 + max - min) as it does today.
--
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-26 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-13 11:58 jidanni
2011-06-26 9:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-26 10:17 ` Peter Münster [this message]
2011-06-26 10:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-28 1:09 ` jidanni
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