Renumbering articles in mail groups

[aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il (Aharon (Al) Schkolnik)]

Hi all.


	A few days ago, I reported that total-expiry was very
slow. Lars explained that the problem is that the articles in some of
my groups are "widely spread". That is, there is a large gap between
the number of the first article in the group and the last article in
the group. This is caused by ticking articles, and leaving them in the
group for a long time, and in the meantime ticking newer article. Now,
I'm wondering if there is a clean way to have gnus renumber the
articles. I use babyl. Following are Lars and my messages. 


TIA.

Aharon


>>>>> "Aharon" == Aharon (Al) Schkolnik <aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il> writes:

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
    Lars> aharon@healdb.matat.health.gov.il (Aharon (Al) Schkolnik)
    Lars> writes:
    >>> Here is what I believe to be the relevant part of the
    >>> newsrc.eld file:
    >>> 
    >>> ("nnbabyl:mail.gnus" 2 ((1 . 2191)) ((save 1818 1861 2151
    >>> 2154)
    Lars> [...]
    >>> (tick 489 639 644 866 987 991 (1477 . 1478) 1550 1643 1655
    >>> 1661 1676

    Lars> This is the problem.  When a group has a wide "spread"
    Lars> (which is the result when old articles are ticked), then
    Lars> total-expiry will be slow.  nnbabyl will here try to look
    Lars> for articles in the 489-2191 range each time expiry is
    Lars> performed.  This will take quite a while.
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