From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:09:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4mlkba7onw.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.801.1189680591.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
>>>>> Leo wrote:
> On 2007-09-13 11:15 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> If you have a nnml group, you can see its .overview file, that is just
>> NOV. It's a common format that most news servers use when
>> communicating with clients. It improves the performance. So,
>> disabling it is not a good idea unless it malfunctions in the server.
>> See also `nnml-nov-is-evil' and `nntp-nov-is-evil'.
Oops. I overlooked `nndiary-nov-is-evil', `nndir-nov-is-evil',
`nnfolder-nov-is-evil', `nnimap-nov-is-evil', `nnspool-nov-is-evil',
and `nnwarchive-nov-is-evil'.
> Do you think this should go to the manual?'
Isn't it enough?
(info "(gnus)Terminology")
,----
|"NOV"
| When Gnus enters a group, it asks the back end for the headers of
| all unread articles in the group. Most servers support the News
| OverView format, which is more compact and much faster to read and
| parse than the normal HEAD format.
`----
I take time ten times as long as Japanese to write English. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-13 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.798.1189676680.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 10:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-13 10:44 ` Leo
2007-09-13 10:47 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.801.1189680591.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 12:09 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2007-09-13 13:33 ` Leo
2007-09-26 20:50 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-26 23:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-26 23:43 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.805.1189690509.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 23:27 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-14 0:43 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.829.1189730734.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-14 5:14 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2007-09-14 19:46 ` Adam Sjøgren
2007-09-14 11:02 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-14 13:47 ` Lowell Gilbert
2007-09-15 3:46 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.893.1189828008.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-17 23:55 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-24 8:36 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2007-09-25 4:17 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-14 15:57 ` Leo
2007-09-13 9:42 Leo
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