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Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?
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Leo |
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Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t? |
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Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:33:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 Emacs/23.0.50 (20070901) Fedora 7 (gnu/linux) |
On 2007-09-13 13:09 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>>>>> 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. ;-)
It is odd that it is not explained in the main text of the
manual. Terminology is the last thing a user want to see.
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- What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Leo, 2007/09/13
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- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2007/09/13
- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Leo, 2007/09/13
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- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Karl Kleinpaste, 2007/09/14
- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Adam Sjøgren, 2007/09/14
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- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2007/09/14
- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Leo, 2007/09/14
- Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?, Lowell Gilbert, 2007/09/14