From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79196 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: utterly bogus "How many articles from ... (available ..., default ...)" Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:00 +0200 Organization: Micropit Message-ID: <878vso28yr.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> References: <87pqmi54e7.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309083445 28701 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2011 10:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:17:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27493@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jun 26 12:17:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QamP1-00052W-Pu for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QamP0-0003Lg-8M; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QamOz-0003LV-6L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QamOy-00081H-0M for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QamOw-00037e-K5 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:14 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QamOv-00050a-Nn for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:13 +0200 Original-Received: from arennes-651-1-243-89.w90-32.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.32.230.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:13 +0200 Original-Received: from pmlists by arennes-651-1-243-89.w90-32.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:17:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arennes-651-1-243-89.w90-32.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SZ8rOwOExhoN9B/B48eustrKkbA= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79196 Archived-At: 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