From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)
Subject: Re: total number of articles in topics
Date: 06 Mar 1996 18:01:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6rav7qd0q.fsf@eyesore.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dhall@illusion.apk.net's message of 05 Mar 1996 18:30:19 -0500
dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) writes:
> I've been reading some old archive files as to making the .newsrc.eld file
> portable and I think Lars you specified that you might save Message-ID's.
> Would this involve saving just the start and end point of each consistant
> block (i.e. the first/last and each end point of a "gap").
I don't know, really. I don't think that'll be sufficient.
> This might reduce the .newsrc.eld file to a managable size. I got
> shivers the first time I read that you'd be saving Message-ID's.
Well, it's only meant to be used when one moves from one server to
another. Using something like that when reading news normally would
be impossible. The sheer amount of data needed to be processed would
kill off Emacs and all other processes in the near vicinity.
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
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1996-03-05 23:30 d. hall
1996-03-06 18:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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1996-03-05 21:48 Colin Rafferty
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