From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus faces
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:12:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762tuqst1.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d3o2fp34.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:31 +0100")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> A slow network connection is the only reason I can think of to
>> restrict fetching of new messages to a subset of groups.
>
> What about reachability?
Well, if a server is not reachable or I'm not interested in getting new
messages from it, then I mark it as denied in the *Server* buffer.
> There are many reasons why you don't want to connect to a server now
> that have nothing to do with network speed.
Yes, but levels are not the right tool for that purpose. Especially,
because levels are somewhat static.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-12 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 16:46 Chong Yidong
2011-01-11 18:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-11 18:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-11 22:56 ` James Cloos
2011-01-12 9:16 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-01-11 23:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-12 7:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-12 8:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-12 9:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-12 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-12 11:12 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-01-12 12:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-12 14:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-12 14:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-12 15:13 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-12 16:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-12 9:25 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-19 21:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-11 17:40 gnus faces Robert D. Crawford
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