From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11874 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 4000000 unread articles Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:26:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151513 515 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA06525 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:38:39 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA26971 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:34:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:27:06 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 6138 invoked by uid 504); 13 Aug 1997 16:27:05 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6135 invoked from network); 13 Aug 1997 16:27:04 -0000 Original-Received: from wydo122.wuh.wustl.edu (HELO hubert.wuh.wustl.edu) (ats@128.252.232.122) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Aug 1997 16:27:04 -0000 Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hubert.wuh.wustl.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19364; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:26:47 -0500 Original-To: Loren Schall In-Reply-To: Loren Schall's message of 12 Aug 1997 15:44:15 -0700 Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.0 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11874 >>>>> "L" == Loren Schall 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 - By consent of the corrupted If wishes were horses, then beggars would be thieves.