From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: utterly bogus "How many articles from ... (available ..., default ...)"
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:09:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r56ekbhv.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iprsx58q.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LMI> pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) writes:
>> I think, the OP suggests, that the back-end should provide more or better
>> information, if possible.
LMI> Yes, that would be nice. However, this particular user has reported the
LMI> same thing, like, four thousand times now, and there's just so many
LMI> times that I feel like repeating the same thing.
No. This is the first time I discovered this particular problem.
LMI> Doing something about this is going to happen in the next Gnus
LMI> development cycle.
I am saying that you are taking a list with many holes in it, and
communicating to the user as if there was always not one single hole in
it.
You get the two edges correct, but ignore the fact that 99% of the items
in between them might be missing.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-13 11:58 jidanni
2011-06-26 9:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-26 10:17 ` Peter Münster
2011-06-26 10:21 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-28 1:09 ` jidanni [this message]
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