From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31442 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Splinter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sending some messages to /dev/null Date: 16 Jun 2000 13:17:07 +0200 Organization: madhouse Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87g0qdho3w.fsf@splinter.inka.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167850 14049 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09637D051F for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:34:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAC03714; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:34:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:33:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA19844 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:33:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75EDD051F for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:33:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from splinter.inka.de (ccxx.yapay.inka.de [212.227.15.94]) by mail.inka.de with esmtp id 132vJk-0000NI-00; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:33:48 +0200 Original-Received: from chris by splinter.inka.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 132u7X-0000E9-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:17:07 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: 7c}oyjs*Ah&kg:!El)Q.oUXbmbK-"o`aGavP]zY90/t~.~d'-\Bu<+7rWJv-V[Gd{66 In-Reply-To: Raymond Scholz's message of "15 Jun 2000 21:06:54 +0200" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31442 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31442 * Raymond Scholz writes: > Simply establish a symbolic link from /dev/null to > ~/Mail/mail.null (or whatever) and add this group with `G m' in > the Group buffer. > Not perfect because this gives me the message > ,---- > | File exists, but cannot be read. > `---- > on fetching new mail. Hm, try replacing /dev/null with /dev/zero. -- Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi. Combine the Borg marketing with Ferengi networking... [Andre Beck in dcouln]