From: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Setting Status header in nnml?
Date: 10 Feb 1999 14:59:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <glmsoceuj0i.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "10 Feb 1999 11:38:07 -0500"
Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> > Well, that information already exists. For example, you could just
> > parse the ~/.newsrc.eld file.
>
> I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that ... :):)
It's all in nice lists. It should not be hard to tear out the bits
that you want.
> > Using Status headers in the way you describe might be possible, but
> > would be really expensive. For instance, if you did a catchup on a
> > group with many articles, Gnus would have to open each file and modify
> > it. This could take a really long time.
>
> Yeah ... I know. But perhaps this capbility could be an option for those
> of us who want to pay the price in processing time.
I won't pretend to speak for Lars, but I really doubt it. Having Gnus
store a bunch of totally redundant information in an extremely
time-consuming manner is probably never going to be very high on the
todo list.
If you submit code to do this that is well-written and doesn't impact
anyone that doesn't turn it on, perhaps it'll be incorporated.
Otherwise, I strongly doubt that this capability will show up anytime soon.
--
Justin Sheehy
In a cloud bones of steel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-10 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-10 16:11 Lloyd Zusman
1999-02-10 16:18 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-02-10 16:38 ` Lloyd Zusman
1999-02-10 19:59 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]
1999-02-11 0:05 ` Patrick Audley
1999-02-11 16:41 ` Justin Sheehy
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