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Subject: Re: expiry with holes in groups
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Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> suppose I've got holes in my groups, eg article no. 23 is ticked, then
> come many many already expired articles (which aren't on my disk any
> more), then article 4711 upwards exist again.  Then, Gnus will look
> for the date of each article number between 23 and 4711 whether or not
> it is older than the expiration time.

Well, if you're using total-expire, then Gnus will probably send the
entire list of articles between 23 and 4711 to be expired.  If you
(the backend) knows that those articles don't exist, then you can just
ignore those articles.

The problem here is that Gnus doesn't know which articles exist in
each group; it only knows the MIN and MAX active articles.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen