From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14492 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: retrieval of incorrect number of articles from nnmbox Date: 08 Mar 1998 02:48:38 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.98 - "Sodani") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153674 16479 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15246 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:58:38 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22213 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 17:53:52 -0600 (CST) 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 SAN20995; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:29:05 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 07 Mar 1998 17:53:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA00294 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 17:53:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9070 invoked by uid 504); 7 Mar 1998 23:52:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9067 invoked from network); 7 Mar 1998 23:52:34 -0000 Original-Received: from ns.vsu.relarn.ru (HELO cc.vsu.ru) (root@194.226.24.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 1998 23:52:29 -0000 Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cc.vsu.ru (8.8.8-vsu/8.8.8) with UUCP id CAA20267 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 02:50:45 +0300 Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA25463; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 02:48:39 +0300 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "08 Mar 1998 00:39:37 +0100" Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.31/Emacs 20.2 X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2 (with raw setting) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14492 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14492 "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: LMI> In general, the only thing Gnus knows about a group is MAX-NUM LMI> and MIN-NUM. (Especially in the case of nnml.) Gnus does the LMI> lowest common denominator thing among its backends here, so... So, one should always keep in mind, how many articles (and in which number regions) were deleted and adjust the requested number of articles? :) Is it possible to overcome this technical problem? May be, introduce some backend-specific functions which should retrieve a given number of (not deleted but really existing) articles? Best regards, -- Vladimir. -- It's a brave man who, when things are at their darkest, can kick back and party! -- Dennis Quaid, "Inner Space"