From: Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
Subject: Re: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:49:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871yjyq8wm.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vaf4rou1slg.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:03:23 +0200")
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Yes, this is quite bad, for nnml, nnfolder and nnmh all want to use
> the same files and directories. You were right that `B m' to a
> non-existing server magically creates it, using the default
> settings.
>
> But it seems indeed that a variable gnus-occupied-files would be
> just right. It could contain directory names and file names. And
> when Gnus tries to create another server using one of these, a
> warning or error message can be issued.
I agree completely. Even a fairly cryptic error message would be
better than the current behavior. :-)
--
matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-20 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 21:35 Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 21:49 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-19 22:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 22:46 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-20 11:00 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-20 6:48 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-20 11:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-20 21:49 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
2001-10-20 22:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-22 5:35 ` Paul Jarc
2001-10-22 16:54 ` Matt Armstrong
2001-10-22 20:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-19 22:42 ` Simon Josefsson
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