From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Some numbering problem (nnml?)
Date: 04 Dec 2000 16:32:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38zpv98jt.fsf@multivac.student.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "04 Dec 2000 04:43:06 -0800"
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> How hard can it really be for gnus to count files on disk for mail
> groups?
That's done by individual backends, not Gnus proper. But anyway,
backends already report the number of articles in the output of
-request-group. Gnus ignores this in favor of last-first+1 (according
to the 5.8.7 texinfo). Anyone know why? Obviously, backends are
capable of making at least as good an estimate as that, and probably
much better. Some backends might not actually do this, but this seems
like a bad way to handle them.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-04 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-01 8:45 Fabrice Gamberini
2000-12-04 12:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-04 12:43 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-04 21:32 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2000-12-04 22:12 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-12-04 22:25 ` Paul Jarc
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