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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: 3.10 bug?
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Date: 17 Nov 88 17:25:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: kddlab!photon.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet!umerin@UUNET.UU.NET's message of 17 Nov 88 07:58:45 GMT

kddlab!photon.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet!umerin@UUNET.UU.NET (Masanobu UMEDA) writes:
      [I described a problem where `=' on a newsgroup with 0 articles
       caused GNUS to go collect all the newsgroup's headers.]

   It is a feature, not a bug.

I understand the rationale behind doing such a thing, but I must say
that it is bound to cause problems sometimes, in heavy-traffic
newsgroups that are expired seldom.  As a case in point, we expire on
a six-week basis - an entire Eagle's worth of news, maintained at
about 75-80% full.  My news host currently has 1200 articles in-spool
for comp.unix.wizards, 2500 for talk.bizarre, and some 4400 in
talk.politics.misc.  The feature is good, but perhaps it needs a
size-limiting variable.

--Karl
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"He even writes obnoxious LISP CODE!"
	-- A local Lisp hacker and AI expert, having tried
	   (thus far unsuccessfully) to bring up Gnews 2.0.