From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39563 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:49:29 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871yjyq8wm.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <87pu7irelm.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175256 28656 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10873 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 21:51:08 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 21:51:08 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15v40L-0001Mz-00; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:49:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA23046 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:49:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 10861 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2001 21:49:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10856 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 21:49:46 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 21:49:46 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4F1EE30 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:49:31 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787C2BD4E for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:49:31 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A087ABD4D; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:49:29 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:03:23 +0200") Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39563 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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. >=20 > 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. :-) --=20 matt