From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38554 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: backend stuff for the manual Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:59:22 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? 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 1035174399 23130 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2975 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 22:59:24 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 22:59:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4450 invoked by uid 500); 3 Sep 2001 22:59:45 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:08:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38554 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38554 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > What do you think of the following paragraph? I like it. >| The result data from this function should be all groups that were Maybe "should include all groups"? Just to be a bit less contradictory with the note that follows. >| in the active buffer format. (It is okay for this function to return >| `too many' groups; some backends might find it cheaper to return the >| full list of groups, rather than just the new groups. But don't do this >| for backends with too many groups.) Maybe also add a note about how to predict whether there are "too many" groups: If the user controls the server's list of groups (as with mail backends), then there are likely to be few groups. If the user does not control the server's list of groups (as with NNTP), then there are likely to be many groups that aren't of interest. Or maybe not. paul