Re: Question about article identification and backends.

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Why 101?  We were talking about all articles having a unique id in
> the whole backend.  This means that there was no article 42
> previously in the group -- there is only one article with number 42.
>
> (Articles coming from other backends should get new, higher, numbers,
> I guess.)

So with respect to ordering the articles in a group, were you thinking
that gnus would:

  - just keep a separate per-group list ordering the articles in a
    group.

  - default to order by "Date:" (or some new "X-Gnus-Arrival-Date:" header).

  - default to order by the unique article ID, presuming that the ID
    included the arrival date (a la maildir?).

  - something else.

In particular, if when I enter a large group and gnus asks me how many
articles, how would that article subset be chosen?  I'd really like
for it to always be the N most recent articles either by Date: or
arrival date by default.

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Rob Browning
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