From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41929 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Picon questions Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:46:48 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87lmf2reev.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177248 8700 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:14:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4414 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 05:48:04 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 05:48:04 -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 16PdUU-00071C-00; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:47:34 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:47:25 -0600 (CST) 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 XAA08469 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:47:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 4405 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2002 05:47:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4400 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2002 05:47:17 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (210.23.138.19) by gnus.org with SMTP; 13 Jan 2002 05:47:17 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [210.23.138.19]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EB72A812 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:47:00 +1100 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F16DC82013; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:46:48 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:08:13 -0500") Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41929 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41929 On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: [...] > Also, it seems to me that, once people have picked up the picon > *.tar.Z files, they'll never again get them (they're huge). Aren't they? > Is there any sort of auto-update scheme, I suppose in a subscription > motif, where one could be notified of new picons' availability? Not that I was ever able to find. The Debian maintainer of the picons does a fairly infrequent update of the packages... ...but if someone with a large amount of (free) bandwidth was to set up an rsync server or something like that which people could update from, that would be very nice. :) Daniel -- Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. -- William Ruckelshaus, _Business Week_, 18 June 1990