Re: Backend writing

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>| that number, or Gnus will get mightily confused.@footnote{??? Is this
>| still true with the nnchoke-request-*-mark* functions?}  Third, article

It's still true.

>| The previous paragraph already mentions all the `hard' restrictions that
>| article numbers must fulfill.  But it seems that it might be useful to
>| assign @emph{consecutive} article numbers, for Gnus gets quite confused
>| if there are holes in the article numbering sequence.  However, due to
>| the `no-reuse' restriction, holes cannot be avoided altogether.

I would say "is slowed down" instead of "gets quite confused".  I
don't think there are any problems, other than that the `gnus-range-*'
functions start to take very long time.  Some IMAP servers leave large
holes.