From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14489 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: retrieval of incorrect number of articles from nnmbox Date: 08 Mar 1998 02:13:15 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.98 - "Sodani") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153672 16458 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14887 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:30:13 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22126 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 17:25:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAN20888; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:00:20 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 07 Mar 1998 17:24:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA29842 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 17:24:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8916 invoked by uid 504); 7 Mar 1998 23:24:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8892 invoked from network); 7 Mar 1998 23:18:46 -0000 Original-Received: from ns.vsu.relarn.ru (HELO cc.vsu.ru) (root@194.226.24.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 1998 23:18:38 -0000 Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cc.vsu.ru (8.8.8-vsu/8.8.8) with UUCP id CAA18612 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 02:16:30 +0300 Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA24616; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 02:13:17 +0300 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "07 Mar 1998 23:59:20 +0100" Original-Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.31/Emacs 20.2 X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2 (with raw setting) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14489 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14489 "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.