From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21131 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Setting Status header in nnml? Date: 10 Feb 1999 14:59:57 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159295 21405 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:14:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08255 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:02:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB18397; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:00:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:00:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA21998 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:00:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08212 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:00:19 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine.mitre.org [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00135 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:59:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by caffeine.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10136; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:59:57 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lloyd Zusman's message of "10 Feb 1999 11:38:07 -0500" Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070069 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.69) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21131 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21131 Lloyd Zusman 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.