From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18353 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hedbor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Nntp inefficiencies Date: 31 Oct 1998 14:18:33 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6f67d62e2s.fsf@dna.lth.se> <6fpvbbo9ed.fsf@dna.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156891 5706 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:34:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:34:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08275 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:18:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB09365; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:18:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:18:37 -0600 (CST) 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 QAA10017 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:18:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from pokey.animearchive.org (root@forbidden.animearchive.org [204.228.135.137]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08270 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:18:26 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mouser (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pokey.animearchive.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA21539 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:15:31 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "31 Oct 1998 15:11:14 +0100" Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18353 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18353 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Paul Franklin writes: > > > This article count is still not exact, but it's a lot closer. > > The article count is irrelevant. It can't be used for anything. What > we need to know is which articles exist; not how many articles exist. It might be irrelevant for Gnus, but I think it's relevant for myself. I want a correct count (mainly on mail groups) because: 1) It looks better when it says "59" instead of "19186" or whatever. Purely visual. 2) When I enter a group I don't want a: "How many articles from foo (default 2817): " when I really only have a 50 or so. This is somewhat annoying. -- [ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ] Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.