From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38920 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnml/nnfolder marks faster Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:45:13 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174710 25113 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:31:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7130 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 15:45:15 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 15:45:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28737 invoked by uid 500); 25 Sep 2001 15:45:35 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:04:41 +0200 (CEST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38920 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38920 Simon Josefsson wrote: > I don't doubt that back ends are _capable_ of storing the mark, but > I think back ends should not store marks that don't have any > semantic meaning in the back end. I don't think *any* marks have semantic meaning in the backend. > Ok, so are you suggesting that the Seen mark should be stored in the > backend as well? In this case, what makes Seen different from Recent? I'm not sure I know what the semantic difference between them is. Tell me that, and I'll tell you how that difference can be preserved when storing them in the backend. paul