From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28918 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pterodactly gripe / oGnus wish Date: 22 Jan 2000 11:12:06 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165679 32301 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:01:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF68AD051E for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:13:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAB18990; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 04:13:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Jan 2000 04:12:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA13087 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 04:12:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (lesbains.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C96BD051E for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:12:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (brabantio [134.2.12.25]) by lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2D94AC for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:12:13 +0100 (NFT) Original-Received: (from sperber@localhost) by informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23182; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:12:11 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "21 Jan 2000 12:46:55 -0500" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Millenium) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28918 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28918 Hi Karl, thanks for the extensive explanation. I guess I'm slow with this: >>>>> "Karl" =3D=3D Karl Kleinpaste writes: Karl> sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de writes: >> And why can't Gnus look up the relevant information when constructing >> the *Group* buffer? At the latest, it should look it up when it >> prompts me for a number. There's something fundamental I'm not >> getting here, or there's a fundamental design flaw in Gnus. Karl> The whole point of the query is to ask if you really want Gnus to Karl> commit to spending all that time, constructing all that informati= on, Karl> for some apparently-but-unreal very large set of articles. But it seems the operation which consumes all that time is constructing the Summary buffer, rather than counting the actual number of articles. Can't those two be decoupled, at least for the local mail backends? --=20 Cheers =3D8-} Mike Friede, V=F6lkerverst=E4ndigung und =FCberhaupt blabla