From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5082 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [sgnus-v0.38] number of articles bug? Date: 12 Feb 1996 07:31:39 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145735 31742 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:28:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:28:55 +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 XAA01666 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 23:06:59 -0800 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 07:31:40 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 07:31:40 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Mark Borges's message of 11 Feb 1996 12:24:22 -0700 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5082 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5082 Mark Borges writes: > When I do `C-u SPACE' on a mail group I see this: > > How many articles from nnml:lists.xemacs (default 794): > > But after I enter the mail group and go to the end of the buffer and > press `C-x l' I see this: > > Page has 390 lines (390 + 0) > > I have an expiry function for this group, so the number of articles > available is not the same as the number of articles fetched. > > Are the two supposed to agree in this case? No. The number you get when entering a group is MAX-ARTICLE less MIN-ARTICLE. This is usually a much bigger number than the actual number of articles in the group, since lots of articles usually are expired/deleted -- especially in mail groups. This will probably be less confusing in Red Gnus. Perhaps this should be added to the FAQ list? -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."