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From: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>
Subject: Re: retrieval of incorrect number of articles from nnmbox
Date: 08 Mar 1998 02:13:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hg5a6qno.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "07 Mar 1998 23:59:20 +0100"

"LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

 LMI> If the highest-numbered message is, say, 130, Gnus will ask
 LMI> nnmbox for articles 121-130.  If seven of these are deleted,
 LMI> Gnus will only receive three messages, which is what it
 LMI> displays.

But isn't an article number an exclusively internal quantity which is
used by Gnus but which is of no interest to the user? If I ask to get
10 articles but really get only 3 (or even 0), this seems a bit
confusing, isn't it?

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.


  reply	other threads:[~1998-03-07 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-03-07 21:59 Vladimir Volovich
1998-03-07 22:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-07 23:13   ` Vladimir Volovich [this message]
1998-03-07 23:39     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-07 23:48       ` Vladimir Volovich
1998-03-08 12:41         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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