Re: Article count

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> David S Goldberg writes:

  David> Right, I understand that difference between auto and total
  David> expiry.  My question is why should auto-expire make group
  David> entry faster?

Ah.  With total-expire, one often ticks those articles that one wants
to keep.  Many ticked articles ==> large summary buffer size ==>
summary buffer generation takes long.

Without total-expire, one can just mark those articles as read that
one wants to keep.  And the important ones can be ticked.  Therefore,
a typical summary buffer contains only the new articles and the few
important ones.  Smaller summary buffer ==> faster group entry.

I should've made that a lot clearer, I think.

kai
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