From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38366 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Updating marks" spam -- how do I kill it? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <861ylxxqt6.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174241 21988 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:24:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:24:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13778 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 20:29:47 -0000 Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 20:29:47 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7RKTrh31121; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:29:54 +0200 Original-To: Jack Twilley In-Reply-To: <861ylxxqt6.fsf@duchess.twilley.org> (Jack Twilley's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:09:57 -0700") Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38366 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38366 Jack Twilley writes: > Every time I hit 'g', I get a line of "Updating marks" for each nnml > group I have. This is remarkably annoying and inefficient. Annoying > because it takes time and wastes bandwidth. I changed the verbosity level to 8. > Inefficient because it traverses every single group instead of only > the ones that were modified by the 'g'. The updating of marks isn't in the Gnus -> nnml direction, but rather the other way around. So all groups that are checked for new mail have their marks updated (if necessary) as well.