From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37432 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: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 00:07:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172849 13847 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28832 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 22:08:09 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Aug 2001 22:08:09 -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 AAA23973 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:07:42 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id AAA09030; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:07:41 +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 AAA08167; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:07:41 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2001 23:44:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37432 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37432 On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 >>| that number, or Gnus will get mightily confused.@footnote{??? Is >>| this still true with the nnchoke-request-*-mark* functions?} >>| Third, article >=20 > It's still true. But haven't you just changed nnimap to ignore article renumberings? I suppose you wouldn't do that unless it's safe? >>| 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. >=20 > I would say "is slowed down" instead of "gets quite confused". I > don't think there are any problems, other than that the > `gnus-range-*' functions start to take very long time. Some IMAP > servers leave large holes. I meant that Gnus says `1276423 messages in this group, how many?' or something like that when the user enters the group. kai --=20 ~/.signature: No such file or directory