From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: 4000000 unread articles
Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:26:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m290y6dp6h.fsf@hubert.wuh.wustl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Loren Schall's message of 12 Aug 1997 15:44:15 -0700
>>>>> "L" == Loren Schall <schall@saifr00.ateng.az.honeywell.com> writes:
L> Any suggestions? I'm not afraid to dink with the code, if
L> somebody'll tell me where to look. There aren't really 4,000,000
L> unread articles, but Gnus (and tin and pine, according to my
L> service provider) seem to be expecting articles from 1 to whatever.
L> Is this a limitation of NNTP?
This happens if the provider resets the article numbers (as mine tends
to do for no known reason). Gnus then tries to set up a really huge
array with space for info for each article, I believe. This go boom.
Tin and some other newsreaders I've tried can handle this fine, which
explains my newsadmins nonchalant in changing article numbers by a
few million every so often. 8^(
--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
If wishes were horses, then beggars would be thieves.
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