From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56757 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Exact article count for nnml groups Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:04:50 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87fzc7lasd.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079543029 10390 80.91.224.253 (17 Mar 2004 17:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5296@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 17 18:03:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3eS2-0005kV-00 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:03:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B3eRK-0005r3-00; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:02:46 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B3dX8-0005jG-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:04:42 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7AD3A0026 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:04:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3dX5-00066h-00 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:04:39 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1079539479 23068 213.203.244.156 (17 Mar 2004 16:04:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:04:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7AiIssrt4feiZXN2ozUyDU+C5wU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56757 David Hanak writes: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > >> I'd suggest to do away with the gnus-count-articles-in-groups variable >> -- just always try to invoke the new function if available. > > What if someone wants to turn this functionality off, say, because > he/she has a slow machine, or when someone implements the required > funciton for nnimap, too, which can be really slow for bad IMAP > connections? I think we need some way to control it other than the > mere existence of the required functions. I suggested to do like nnml-nov-is-evil. WDYT? It would allow said person to turn it off for nnimap, but on for another backend. Kai