From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6811 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Red GNUS suggestion: pseudo Xref: handling w/o NOV support. Date: 19 Jun 1996 09:29:41 -0700 Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.68) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147212 4807 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:53:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA03010 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:03:09 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (steve@deanna.miranova.com [206.190.83.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:30:34 +0200 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA02223; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:29:43 -0700 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 18 Jun 1996 23:31:35 -0700 Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.20/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6811 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6811 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> Sudish Joseph writes: >> My news admin pointed out a good reason for not having Xref: full in >> their overview.fmt. The vast majority of their clients use PC-based >> readers and none of those readers support xref handling. ... Lars> The drawback here is (of course) that such an approach wouldn't work Lars> if you read one article in one session and the other copy of the Lars> article in another session. We could write the list of Message-IDs Lars> already seen to a file, but that file would grow rather big... Another approach would appear to be making use of the XHDR XREF command if available. This would require issuing two commands instead of one when getting the overview, and merging the information returned, but should still be faster than the alternatives. -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.