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Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:
> 
> > But functions that may take a long time to run, such as entering a
> > large group, should have well-defined interrupt points or be safe to
> > interrupt, otherwise people may lose e-mail like I have :-(
> 
> Entering a large group does in fact have a well-defined interrupt
> point.  You just explained the exact reason why Gnus asks you for
> confirmation when selecting a large group.
> 
> If you confirm this, or set gnus-large-newsgroup to nil, then you are
> intentionally allowing the very well defined interrupt-safe time to
> pass.  If you do that, then you should let the subsequent code finish
> nicely.

BTW. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to set gnus-large-newsgroup per
group? Or is it already possible? (I once tried to set it in group
parameters, but it didn't work.)

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.