From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5470 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: total number of articles in topics Date: 06 Mar 1996 18:01:14 +0000 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 1035146070 454 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA13661 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:42:04 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:01:16 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 19:01:14 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: dhall@illusion.apk.net's message of 05 Mar 1996 18:30:19 -0500 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5470 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5470 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."