From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39608 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: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:54:27 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87g08bwr7g.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 1035175293 28883 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3988 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 17:00:29 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 17:00:29 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15viM1-0007zP-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:54:48 -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 LAA01237 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:54:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 3867 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2001 16:54:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3862 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 16:54:44 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 16:54:44 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0D5EE30 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:54:29 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135F8BD4E for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:54:29 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB9AABD35; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:54:27 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 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:39608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39608 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Matt Armstrong wrote: >> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >>> The trouble is with people who do this: >>>=20 >>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "")) >>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnfolder "")) > ... >> I've not yet verified if this happens only because I have '(nnml "") >> as my primary select method. >=20 > It happens because you have '(nnml "") as a select method. It > doesn't matter whether it's primary, secondary, or foreign. This is particularly dangerous because operations such as "B c" can cause select methods to magically appear. I wonder if this is wise. I also notice that if I gnus-server-regenerate-server my "nnml:" server, it gets confused by the Mail/archive directory (which is an nnfolder: thing by default, and is placed in Mail/ by default). Have all these issues always been present? I think not. Hasn't Gnus historically only relied on .newsrc.eld for group info, and only recently looked at files on disk to try to find groups for the backends? --=20 matt