From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: how does Gnus calculate the number of new messages in a group, and why is it usually incorrect?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:55:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84k7ke8j21.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ulm4ucttv.fsf@telestoconsulting.com>
Ed <ed@telestoconsulting.com> writes:
> How does Gnus arrive at the number of new messages in a mail or news
> group?
> The number always seems to be too high!
It uses an estimate based on lowest and highest article number in the
group. If there are "holes" in the sequence of article numbers (due
to deleted messages, perhaps), the estimate is wrong.
Maybe the current Oort Gnus (a snapshot, not 0.07) corrects this
problem, but I'm not sure.
kai
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