From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75324 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tommy Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wrong number of articles from completely read group Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:45:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292870804 28270 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2010 18:46:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:46:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23676@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 20 19:46:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUkkp-0000u5-Pe for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:46:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PUkkM-00025Y-60; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:46:10 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PUkkK-00025L-FB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:46:08 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PUkkG-000626-Au for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:46:08 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PUkkE-0006d7-UI for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:46:02 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUkk8-0000Qz-V5 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:46:01 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com ([70.112.150.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:45:51 +0100 Original-Received: from tommy.kelly by cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:45:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TbSARYZUsAXtz07nbm2JtNB3F3Y= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75324 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Tommy Kelly writes: > >> If I have a group where all the articles are read and I open it, I get >> asked how many articles I want to show. The number I'm actually shown is >> always less than the number I ask for (unless I ask for 1). For example, >> asking for 2 gives me 1. Asking for 4 gives me three. But it's not >> always n-1. For example, asking for 20 gives me 16. > > Gnus doesn't know what articles exist, so it asks for articles in the > range of n-x to n. For IMAP, there's often fewer than x+1 articles in > that range. Ah. Where n is the number of the most recent article? And in which case if any articles have been moved or deleted from the group then there will be fewer articles than expected. I see. Still doesn't explain, though, why sometimes I'm just told "No unread news" no matter how many articles I request. Tommy