From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35438 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: expiring mail? Date: 21 Mar 2001 18:05:27 -0500 Sender: prj@multivac.cwru.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171182 3094 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:33:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:33:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10015 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2001 23:05:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10010 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2001 23:05:30 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 21 Mar 2001 23:05:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9498 invoked by uid 500); 21 Mar 2001 23:05:49 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "21 Mar 2001 23:54:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 11 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35438 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35438 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Gnus uses an estimate based on first and last article number because > of efficiency: this data can be had from an NNTP server very quickly, > and the exact number is hard to get. WIBNI we could configure Gnus to use the article count from -request-group instead? Say, by a group/topic parameter? Most of the time, I'd prefer correctness to efficiency. paul