From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79340 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bug with referring articles Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:11:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87iprk1zwb.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87fwnbr15c.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87boxzhrs8.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87oc1y1d6i.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87ei2t4ksj.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87r56asz1g.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87mxgxy7ez.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87sjqon99l.fsf@andy.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309619473 25731 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2011 15:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:11:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Andrew Cohen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27636@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 02 17:11:09 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 1Qd1qf-0007tO-88 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:11:09 +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 1Qd1qe-0005Qf-75; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:11:08 -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 1Qd1qd-0005QU-9h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:11:07 -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 1Qd1qb-0001yC-Sa for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd1qa-0004OU-Bx for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:11:04 +0200 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA44D20939; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:11:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:11:03 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=RiZSqPqV7ibdFordV3w+g5bPwtQ=; b=AEmsTfS7cASQmRmt6oomHTULP7kalnaG7FNgfT4nzqsADDTkU79UuYkWRTwUPoynkDZu0fkRLCm25MNGiPmHn65Pu4rTMsx7HCcvOPOskcTqNRBNgW4IGyZzLudWMDwUcqpBGLVzltBTZpeClloET/SQLyUkl9BQM6lh2blAHiM= X-Sasl-enc: 2+iVJjeXIGTFSEealk3zidH1f+NPZEE8SXcBDGRZC14l 1309619463 Original-Received: from thinkpad (91-67-148-30-dynip.superkabel.de [91.67.148.30]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4FDC4449E7; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:11:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87sjqon99l.fsf@andy.bu.edu> (Andrew Cohen's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:43:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79340 Archived-At: Andrew Cohen writes: Hi Andy, > The docstring of `gnus-refer-article-method' begins: > > *Preferred method for fetching an article by Message-ID. > If you are reading news from the local spool (with nnspool), fetching > articles by Message-ID is painfully slow. By setting this method to an > nntp method, you might get acceptable results.* > > This seems a tad outdated? Maybe this is no longer the most important > use-case for this variable, and shouldn't be the first thing the user > is confronted with? I'd agree. I guess the most relevant backends are imap, nntp, and probably nnml. Bye, Tassilo -- Sent from my Emacs