From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1357 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user 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 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84k7ke8j21.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668148 10971 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:42:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:02 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50876b41.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1035049898 6140 80.135.107.65 (19 Oct 2002 17:51:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Oct 2002 17:51:38 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8B457JAztufxGtFvkFg5MT0gdvw= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1497 Original-Lines: 16 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1497 Tue Jan 17 17:29:02 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1357 Archived-At: Ed 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 -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)