Crosspost Handling The Summary Buffer
By default, Gnus tries to make sure that you don't have to read the same article more than once by utilizing the crossposting mechanism (see Crosspost Handling). However, that simple and efficient approach may not work satisfactory for some users for various reasons.
Xref
header. This
is evil and not very common.
Xref
header in the
`.overview
' data bases. This is evil and all too common, alas.
I'm sure there are other situations where Xref
handling fails as
well, but these four are the most common situations.
If, and only if, Xref
handling fails for you, then you may
consider switching on duplicate suppression. If you do so, Gnus
will remember the Message-ID
s of all articles you have read or
otherwise marked as read, and then, as if by magic, mark them as read
all subsequent times you see them---in all groups. Using this
mechanism is quite likely to be somewhat inefficient, but not overly
so. It's certainly preferable to reading the same articles more than
once.
Duplicate suppression is not a very subtle instrument. It's more like a
sledge hammer than anything else. It works in a very simple
fashion---if you have marked an article as read, it adds this Message-ID
to a cache. The next time it sees this Message-ID, it will mark the
article as read with the `M
' mark. It doesn't care what group it
saw the article in.
gnus-suppress-duplicates
|
If non- |
gnus-save-duplicate-list
|
If non- |
gnus-duplicate-list-length
|
This variable says how many |
gnus-duplicate-file
|
The name of the file to store the duplicate suppression list in. The
default is ` |
If you have a tendency to stop and start Gnus often, setting
gnus-save-duplicate-list
to t
is probably a good idea. If
you leave Gnus running for weeks on end, you may have it nil
. On
the other hand, saving the list makes startup and shutdown much slower,
so that means that if you stop and start Gnus often, you should set
gnus-save-duplicate-list
to nil
. Uhm. I'll leave this up
to you to figure out, I think.