From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51584 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: backend question: how to detect new articles Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:56:55 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nel41djin.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050609536 17400 80.91.224.249 (17 Apr 2003 19:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M128@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 17 21:58:55 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196FUc-0004MO-00 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:56:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 196FVF-0000zd-00; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 196FVB-0000zY-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 54932 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2003 19:56:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 54927 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2003 19:56:56 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.114.26) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2003 19:56:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12611 invoked by uid 500); 17 Apr 2003 19:57:17 -0000 Original-To: Ding Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4nel41djin.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:13:52 -0400") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Ding Mailing List Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51584 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51584 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > How can I tell what articles are new when entering any group? I think > this can be done with the newsrc-alist, but I'm not sure how. What does "new" mean? Lacking the 'seen mark? Having the 'recent mark? If it means something like "added to the group since the last time you checked for \"new\" articles", then I think there's no built-in way to discover that; you'd have to maintain a duplicate article list and compare it to the current list yourself. paul