From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17477 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Utter frustration Date: 29 Sep 1998 09:29:43 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156170 1133 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:22:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA09047 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:32:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAF28813; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:30:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA12259 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:30:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from loiosh.kei.com (ckd@loiosh.kei.com [192.88.144.32]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA09007 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:29:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ckd@localhost) by loiosh.kei.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04004; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:29:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: larsi@gnus.org's message of "23 Sep 98 20:14:29 GMT" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" X-Face: I8Alb*-ZdjN\/8k_QR,^l^m6GQB'S-B:}DVP].1HOw#tx:TX$k;Wl;4zqjWR|-jheM#? &beRf(!|0b0m=M~=%.Am>"QEY.(#Ys.%"s?z,hmwp&y0%p>9+T X-Attribution: ckd Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17477 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17477 PA> == Per Abrahamsen LMI> == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen PA> Gnus could be more helpful. Something like: PA> (when (< last-article-number-on-server last-read-article-number) LMI> The problem here is that `last-article-number-on-server' is LMI> something that may not be all that reliable. For instance, I LMI> sometimes switch between having `gnus-read-active-file' set to t, LMI> `some' and nil. On the nntp server I use, all these three return LMI> differing data. (Vaguely differing.) So this test would LMI> routinely trigger for me. Toss in a fudge factor, then. Very few resets are going to be less than, say, 5000 articles or so, especially since we're in extremely late September 1993... "Vaguely differing" is probably <100, almost certainly <500, and almost definitely <1000. 5000 is for extra extra safety. (defcustom gnus-group-reset-fudge-factor 5000 "Fudge factor when checking for reset article numbers. If the article number goes backwards more than this number, ask the user whether to reset the group." :group 'gnus-fixing-other-peoples-mistakes :type 'integer) Okay, so the :group is probably going to have to change... -- Christopher Davis * * Put location information in your DNS!