From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/786 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my .newsrc.eld is 100 times bigger than my .newsrc Date: 18 Jul 2002 13:58:36 +0800 Message-ID: <87u1mxbmr7.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <87wusbbutp.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667700 8395 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:35:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:07 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!h99.s11.ts32.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h99.s11.ts32.hinet.net (163.32.11.99) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1027024317 28326982 163.32.11.99 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: 127.0.0.1!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:926 Original-Lines: 26 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 926 Tue Jan 17 17:28:07 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:786 Archived-At: Well gosh, being that Outlook has a "compress news folders" or whatever function, how about one for gnus? And I don't mean just to go and bzip2 myself, I know how to do that. I mean something that will really clean the junk out. >>>>> "t" == those who know me have no need of my name writes: t> in gnu.emacs.gnus i read: >> How big's your .newsrc.eld? >> $ wc -lc .newsrc .newsrc.eld >> 48 6642 .newsrc >> 13 796852 .newsrc.eld >> mine's 100 times bigger than my .newsrc. Is there any diet program >> available to reduce its size? t> gnus remembers the article number of every article you've ever read and if t> you don't read all articles that can generate quite a long list (because of t> the gaps). it does this even if there is no chance of the article re- t> appearing (those below the low water mark). what is needed is a function t> to eliminate the read marks for article numbers below the low water mark. t> in fact the low water mark of each group should be tracked, because if the t> server ever returns a lower value than what was last recorded the group has t> been renumbered and something needs to be done about it (typically clearing t> all marks, because they've all become invalid). -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780