From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles
Date: 12 Aug 1998 22:13:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n299o45j.fsf@Chub.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eze Ogwuma's message of "13 Aug 1998 05:21:53 +0100"
Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> > Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Everytime I try to redo the numbering with moving technique, the
> > number displayed increases by the 200+ that are still there.
> >
> > Also a quick line count of the files in ~/Mail/ding-mail/* from
> > 'dired' shows 217 files. The displayed count is now up to 1651.
>
> I've seen the same thing too. I gave up when the article numbers
> climbed to above 2000.
>
> [...]
>
> > I've used the 'moving to same group' technique before on other groups
> > successfully so having a bit of trouble seeing what is different here.
>
> As have I. At some point along the way it seems that something's
> changed. Perhaps now's the time to implement renumbering.
I just went ahead and did it the long way round by copying to a temp
group , then 'C-u G del' Remake group and copy back. The numbers are now
right but it seems a bit much.
--
Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-13 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-12 21:59 Harry Putnam
1998-08-12 22:25 ` Francisco Solsona
1998-08-12 22:53 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 3:22 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 3:42 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 4:21 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 5:13 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
1998-08-13 6:57 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 7:39 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-13 8:16 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 15:51 ` Harry Putnam
1998-08-14 2:38 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-08-13 10:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-14 1:04 ` Justin Sheehy
1998-08-14 5:10 ` Harry Putnam
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