From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64638 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: On loosing marks in nntp groups... Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:52:21 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179136613 17864 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2007 09:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:56:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13149@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 14 11:56:52 2007 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 4.50) id 1HnXIR-0003N6-PM for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 11:56:52 +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 1HnXEF-0000MU-Gk; Mon, 14 May 2007 04:52:31 -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 1HnXEC-0000ME-Lz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 14 May 2007 04:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HnXEB-0001Ji-D2 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 14 May 2007 04:52:28 -0500 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HnXEA-0006lg-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 11:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from [66.225.201.151] (port=38140 helo=mail.jpl.org) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HnXE3-000164-PK for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 04:52:20 -0500 X-Hashcash: 1:20:070514:ding@gnus.org::E109n6KLkEhm2Hch:00000nJ+ X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iFpEymh9dm2uGnI0rmqxqLeJSZI= X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64638 Archived-At: >>>>> In Didier Verna wrote: > I'd already reported this problem some time ago, but this morning I > figured out the cause. I don't have time to look for a fix right now, > but anybody else is welcome to try :-) In the meantime I just wanted to > report the origin of the problem back to the list. > I have a group in which more than 200 articles are ticked. All of them > are also in the cache (they appear denoted as !* in the summary buffer), > bit *most* of them are now gone from the server. > When I enter the summary buffer, gnus-select-newsgroup calls > gnus-fetch-headers to retrieve the headers for these articles, and gets > a bunch of "no such article" errors back. One way or another, what's > left (and saved) in the marks are only the articles still present on the > server. > At first sight, gnus-fetch-headers should probably look in the cache > before actually trying to talk to the server... `gnus-fetch-headers' calls `gnus-retrieve-headers', which looks to look in the cache first if `gnus-use-cache' is non-nil and Gnus knows articles to be fetched. Of course Gnus knows them that are ticked and cached in such a case. Actually I have such articles (ticked and cached but expired in the server) but have no problem. It is because `gnus-use-cache' is `passive' in my case, maybe. Regards,