From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [Q] What's the system name for in Xrefs ?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:55:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6ghcq6u.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <muxachdmof8.fsf@uzeb.lrde.epita.fr> (Didier Verna's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:23:07 +0200")
Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
> Hi !
> When an article is accepted and saved on an nnml server, the Xref header is
> created with the result of (system-name), followed by "group:number".
> What's the purpose of the system name, and what happens if for instance,
> you're running Gnus once on another machine, with your nnml directories
> mounted by NFS ??
It's a purely informational part of the protocol, required for
compatibility with other Xref headers but ignored completely by everything
other than the human eye.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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