From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28336 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2022 15:35:14 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Mar 2022 15:35:14 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX30z-00692L-EV for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:35:13 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX30y-006EBO-MG for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:35:12 -0500 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX30x-006EBI-Tj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:35:11 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nX30v-00691q-4s for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:35:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=bKtAYati7t5mG9j1uPYD9MMCXCT5j+RuPmHyVC/gJkA=; b=DjW4pa1J95ivA+dXWT8pS+Y8Ax WShP//k13nbWVNLksKv7dZFMECu1DCxDMix+/m5MOwqxniWdGNwuoK0bILU2nUSCF5BkoaOt/BbwP SUx6WImHljhKyPY2THCOEiuYDCiMIlezzDRkz1oNC0kufqOGKpRd6xRoZ/bUMi2swl8w=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nX30p-0005TE-Fs for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:35:05 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nX30n-0009sH-NF for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:35:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ding@gnus.org From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: virtual nnvirtual Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:31:30 +0000 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87o81wr8h9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87v8w51oq7.fsf@ust.hk> <87mthguba3.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mthghlu9.fsf@ust.hk> <87a6dgst4w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87sfr8iuib.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gJS/Caq5BJcyogrSuz34YS+BxCc= X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ List-ID: Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 23 Mar 2022 at 08:00, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > As Andy mentioned, this is also kind of a philosophical/design question. Indeed. > Personally I would find it less surprising if you didn't get > any messages from long-inactive groups until you "dug all the way back" As would I. > in time to them, but that would require a different code approach (and > probably would be less efficient). I guess the alternative would retrieve articles from each group, sort them, and then prune the list to the desired size. But not really necessary, once the algorithm is understood! I can live with the current approach, knowing how to get what I want. thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2