Re: nnvirtual

[Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

    Eric> Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> writes:
    >> Gnus has had the nnvirtual backend, allowing several newsgroups
    >> to be read as a single, combined newsgroup, for ages. But is
    >> anyone using it?  And if so, how and why?

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    Eric> (Me again.)

    Eric> Is there a way to make use of Gnus' existing "big group"
    Eric> behavior?  Meaning, add the active numbers, and if it's more
    Eric> than `gnus-large-newsgroup', prompt the user for the number of
    Eric> articles to retrieve? Or is that happening at a different
    Eric> level of infrastructure?

Different level of infrastructure. But its not hard to solve this
problem (in fact the limit variable that I stuck in by hand does almost
exactly what the large newsgroup variable does, minus the prompting
which would be trivial to add). But I am trying to understand what
functionality would be served by any of this to decide how best to
handle it.

My real guess is that no one is using it and there it serves no
purpose. In which case the simplest solution is probably the best one:)