From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61156 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] What's the system name for in Xrefs ? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:55:05 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87k6ghcq6u.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129222897 30111 80.91.229.2 (13 Oct 2005 17:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9689@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 13 19:01:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQ6Mo-0002rv-C8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:55:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EQ6Mj-0007j5-00; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:55:37 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EQ6MN-0007j0-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EQ6MI-0005CB-6o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp1.stanford.edu ([171.67.16.123]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EQ6MG-0007eF-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:55:08 +0200 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.19.147]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9DGt5Dd008756 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:55:06 -0700 Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 28FA0E793A; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:23:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61156 Archived-At: Didier Verna 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)