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Subject: Re: "Updating marks" spam -- how do I kill it?
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Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> writes:

>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
> Jack> Every time I hit 'g', I get a line of "Updating marks" for each
> Jack> nnml group I have.  This is remarkably annoying and inefficient.
> Jack> Annoying because it takes time and wastes bandwidth.
>
> Simon> I changed the verbosity level to 8.
>
> Tell me how to make it go away?

(setq gnus-verbose 7)

> Jack> Inefficient because it traverses every single group instead of
> Jack> only the ones that were modified by the 'g'.
>
> Simon> The updating of marks isn't in the Gnus -> nnml direction, but
> Simon> rather the other way around.  So all groups that are checked
> Simon> for new mail have their marks updated (if necessary) as well.
>
> There has *got* to be a better way.

Is there a way to se if a specific group has new messages?
`gnus-group-get-new-news' doesn't seem to differentiate between groups.

Henrik
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Could I have a drug overdose?