Re: Gnus: mark-expirable vs. delete

[Johan Bockgård]

"Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> writes:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
>> There has been some talk in the past couple of weeks. Not sure
>> whether that addresses your problem, or a related but distinct
>> problem. You'd find the new stuff in CVS.
>
> Thanks, Kai. Can I access archives of the discussion, to see if it
> is what I'm looking for? Thanks again!

It's in gnus.ding at news.gnus.org (or google groups). I think this is
the start of said discussion:

    From: Hanak David <dhanak@inf.bme.hu>
    Newsgroups: gnus.ding
    Subject: emacs.gnus
    Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 15:04:33 +0200
    Message-ID: <m2wufwoh3y.fsf@maui.hanak.hu>
    
    
    I find it annoying that Gnus cannot determine the exact article
    count for nnml groups. Since I often move messages from one group
    to another, or expire articles, the active range is full of holes.
    Therefore, when I ask Gnus for, say, 50 articles, it might happen
    that I only get 5. And the estimate for the number of artciles can
    also become very wild.
    
    I've hacked this for myself quite a while ago, but very recently
    I've joined the Gnus newsgroups, and decided to send a patch that
    would solve the problem for others, too. The patches are up to
    date, they are based on the CVS version. Please feel free to
    modify them. [...]

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