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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: What is a "virtual" group?
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:52:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehm1di6g.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2haqyhup5.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com>

>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:

> So I'm left with

>    virtual == temporary

> Is that really all it means?

I vaguely remember when first reading about virtual groups that it
looked like you could combine several groups into one.  But I never had
a use case for that, so I never investigated further.

I also may have been mistaken in my assumptions.

> I think only someone who understands the intended meaning of "virtual"
> could answer it.

Probably.

> Lars?

Very probably.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-16 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-15 23:53 Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
2012-09-16 15:08   ` Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:15     ` Adam Sjøgren
2012-09-16 16:52     ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2012-12-25 12:26     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 20:23       ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 20:31         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 20:51           ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 20:59             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 21:32               ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 21:45                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-31 18:10                   ` Dave Abrahams
2013-01-31 18:18                 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-01-31 23:18                   ` Eric S Fraga
2013-02-20  5:06                     ` Dave Abrahams
2013-04-22  8:38                       ` Leonidas Tsampros
2013-04-25 13:50                         ` Dave Abrahams
2013-04-25 17:48                           ` Leonidas Tsampros

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