From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78806 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Virtual groups weirdness Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 07:58:55 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87d3jo5b3k.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87tyd17enk.fsf@gmail.com> <87mxit5wca.fsf@gmail.com> <87zkmsx69u.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r5842q9y.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305205196 18396 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2011 12:59:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:59:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27106@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 12 14:59:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QKVUa-00025Y-Nn for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 14:59:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QKVU4-0001SM-Oz; Thu, 12 May 2011 07:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QKVU3-0001SB-Hv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 12 May 2011 07:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QKVU2-0007Z5-4l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 12 May 2011 07:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QKVTz-0003ws-7U for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 14:59:11 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QKVTv-0001jN-5e for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 14:59:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 14:59:07 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 14:59:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xqfrbepqKZ5/IqDZ4ig67FuDp4Q= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78806 Archived-At: On Thu, 12 May 2011 11:59:21 +0200 Antoine Levitt wrote: AL> 11/05/11 23:43, Ted Zlatanov >> Also I would disallow any group with a nnvirtual backend, not just the >> one we're generating. There's little point in making virtual groups of >> virtual groups, so that would also fix the issue you're reporting. AL> That'd certainly be easier to implement (just match AL> ^nnvirtual). However, I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. Users AL> could in principle have a tree of virtual groups. I'm not sure if anyone AL> actually does that, but it seems arbitrary to forbid it. If you think about the use cases, virtual groups are rare anyhow. Meta-virtual groups are probably extremely rare as legitimate use cases. But this is just my opinion; maybe others are using meta-virtuals happily. Ted