From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37426 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Backend writing Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 22:57:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172844 13819 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:00:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25750 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 20:58:01 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Aug 2001 20:58:01 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id WAA23008 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:57:34 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id WAA08409; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:57:34 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id WAA08056; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:57:33 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:39:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37426 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37426 On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Paul Jarc wrote: > One thing that I would have liked to find there, but didn't, is what > conditions article numbers must satisfy. I have added the following to the end of the `Backend Interface' node. Please comment. (Especially on the `???' part.) /---- | Gnus identifies each message by way of group name and article number. | A few remarks about these article numbers might be useful. First of | all, the numbers are positive integers. Secondly, it is not allowed for | later articles to `re-use' older article numbers. That is, if a group | has ever contained a message numbered 42, then no other message may get | that number, or Gnus will get mightily confused.@footnote{??? Is this | still true with the nnchoke-request-*-mark* functions?} Third, article | numbers must be assigned in order of arrival in the group; this is not | necessarily the same as the date of the message. | | The previous paragraph already mentions all the `hard' restrictions that | article numbers must fulfill. But it seems that it might be useful to | assign @emph{consecutive} article numbers, for Gnus gets quite confused | if there are holes in the article numbering sequence. However, due to | the `no-reuse' restriction, holes cannot be avoided altogether. \---- kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory