From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4851 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sparse threads Date: 22 Jan 1996 03:51:07 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <68emvqh8.fsf@bjob.no> <199601101841.TAA11446@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145540 31048 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:25:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:25:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA03806 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 19:23:20 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 03:51:08 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 03:51:08 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU's message of 20 Jan 1996 09:09:33 -0500 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4851 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4851 gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes: > > Uhm. I don't think Gnus should go check the archive group; that would take > > too long. However, you will be able to select these sparse nodes > > That sounds pretty cool. > > Would this be more feasible if the archive method were a method that had an > overview file? What advantages does nnfolder have? The advantage of nnfolder is that it uses one mbox file per group, which means that you can read these folder with just about any mail reader. The disadvantage is that these files can grow rather big, which slows down just about everything. nnfolder does not maintain an overview file, and it wouldn't really help much if it did. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."