From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86649 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to prevent gnus from always downloading full index Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4blxx58.fsf@igel.home> References: <6kwpr6efb6.fsf@shaula.iup.uni-bremen.de> <6kziw2ikh8.fsf@shaula.iup.uni-bremen.de> <87h9i9x0s8.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> <87bn8hei9j.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453226796 27967 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2016 18:06:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:06:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34876@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 19 19:06:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLafd-0000uu-44 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:06:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaf7-0006V6-E9; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:05:49 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaf5-0006Ua-8F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:05:47 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaf3-0007yN-M1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:05:47 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aLaf1-0006q7-5q for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:43 +0100 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3plHw55zwKz3hjkK for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3plHw54thfzvdWR for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XhUYZ5UAvcoJ for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:40 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: KnoBipn30TLgpHUOoxTjiQmxevR6CpXqbZdV6FNjGEMDfRGfwGggV8R8GQj2vvgT Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-2-56.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.2.56]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 884F92C305F; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:39 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Is this ANYWHERE, USA? In-Reply-To: <87bn8hei9j.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:49:44 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86649 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 19 Jan 2016 at 12:32, Adam Sjøgren wrote: > > [...] > >> gnus-keep-backlog 'nil >> gnus-keep-backlog '0 >> >> I have it set to 20. I think 'nil and '0 are weird values to use - nil >> or 0 would make more sense, but keeping the default 20 maybe even more :-) > > I wonder whether quoting a 0 means all emails are stored for > re-retrieval, i.e. equivalent to a non-nil non-number entry as the > documentation mentions. Not a good idea, if so. Both values are evaluated, but since nil and 0 are self-evaluating the quote is redundant. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."