Re: Nntp inefficiencies

[Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

 > Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se> writes:

 >> It's not the size but the relation between them.  Take a look again.
 >> The simple idea is that Gnus should never report more than the total
 >> number of server-available articles as unread.

 > And in the case I outlined, what should Gnus do?

 > This is not a rhetorical question.

 > In the special case you described, getting the number right is
 > trivial, but it's a fairly unusual situation.  

Just so everyone's clear, Kurt and I are looking at slightly
different situations.

I'm looking at the mail backends where Gnus has complete control
over what's going on.  For these backends, it should be trivial to
get the number exactly right in all cases, and I think it is.  But
Gnus overestimates in ways which result in large errors with certain
usage habits, as has been noted.

As an extra bonus, it'll help Kurt's scenario somewhat.  :)

Lars, if I get this working, do you want patches?  (I think this
involves adding a group parameter, since I need to remember two
extra per-group integers.  Is there a better way?)

--Paul