From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7238 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Balker Rasmussen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Changing Default News Server Date: 18 Jul 1996 14:30:45 +0200 Sender: gnort@daimi.aau.dk Message-ID: <0fpw5thhfu.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> References: <87zq4xg61p.fsf@perv.daft.com> <0fu3v5hkdc.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147574 6359 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA24066 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 05:47:35 -0700 Original-Received: from fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk (fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk [130.225.16.39]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:30:46 +0200 Original-Received: (from gnort@localhost) by fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk (8.6.11/8.6.11) id OAA18328; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:30:45 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Jan Vroonhof's message of 18 Jul 1996 14:13:14 +0200 Original-Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.36/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7238 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7238 Jan Vroonhof writes: > Lars Balker Rasmussen writes: > > Hmm, curious. Lars, how do you expect to solve this problem? > > The brute force solution would be to get the Message-ID's of all read > messages and then look them up on the new server. Precisely, that's a brute force ad-hoc solution, which would absolutely not work if e.g. my local news-server (which has perverse expiration times) was involved. I had considered that one, but is that the _only_ approach you have considered? In that case, the feature would only be useful for filling up a feature list :-/ -- Lars Balker Rasmussen