From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23523 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lee Willis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Being forced to deal with message numbers and frustrated Date: 24 Jun 1999 16:48:43 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4jywvwuyde2.fsf_-_@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> <4jy4sjy1s6k.fsf@homeworld.Eng.Sun.Com> <99Jun23.201735edt.13841-3@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161240 2489 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07823 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB29433; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:50:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:50:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16541 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:50:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailgate.gbdirect.co.uk (root@bfd-gate.gbdirect.co.uk [194.217.100.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07654 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from gbdirect.co.uk (lee@landlord.gbdirect.co.uk [192.168.0.129]) by mailgate.gbdirect.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09759 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:44 +0100 Original-Received: (from lee@localhost) by gbdirect.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27685; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:43 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "J~~0'L`GfL^sW4%+i35x#X308)K/$7\]qy)UZ$`k:}Bx]6mgAA^N5,@brn/19TPn%o;j28 W7mD)UN~se8P9\3?wU.g+i9)X Create a new nnml group with G m, copy 3 messages to this group. > Mark them all as read. Delete the article with number 2. Exit the > group. Enter the group. You will now be asked how many articles you > want to see, even though there only is 2 articles in the group. This > can be very annoying when you have larges mail groups with gaps. Why is it *very* annoying. So you have to hit C-u RET RET. I'd hardly call that vastly inconvenient ... > Further more, AFAIK[1], Gnus will consider all messages from the > lowest available number to the highest. So if you have a group with a > article numbered 1 and the next is numbered 1002, Gnus will have to do > something for 1000 article in between, this may not be much, but will > amount to a hill of beans in the long run. So for efficiency it would > be perfectly sane to provide some kind of renumbering function. Hmm, I agree with this, and I can see your point but Gnus *does have* a renumbering function. Enter the group you wish to renumber with C-u RET (And a further RET if you're prompted). The do the following M P b B m name-of-group RET and all your problems should be solved (Unless of course you have cached articles which you shouldn't in mail groups anyway ...) Lee. -- I was doing object-oriented assembly at 1 year old ... For some reason my mom insists on calling it "Playing with blocks"