From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16004 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles Date: 12 Aug 1998 22:13:28 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154946 25290 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA04015 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:29:45 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13344 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:23:37 -0400 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 XAT07057; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:54:26 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:22:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA28620 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:21:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from noble.comstar.net (noble.comstar.net [207.15.208.2]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA06516 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:21:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from beach.silcom.com (beach.silcom.com [199.201.128.19]) by noble.comstar.net (8.8.5/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26721 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Chub.local (pm1-26.sba1.avtel.net [207.71.218.76]) by beach.silcom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA22600; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Eze Ogwuma In-Reply-To: Eze Ogwuma's message of "13 Aug 1998 05:21:53 +0100" Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.33/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16004 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16004 Eze Ogwuma writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Eze Ogwuma 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