Re: overriding marks for synchronization

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:55:23 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

>>>>>> Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>:
>> Ah, yeah that makes sense. In fact I avoid the problem by always
>> connecting to the same nntp servers through (different) tunnels. But
>> one might not be able to do that all the time.

SB> Actually the servers have to be the same (the same server names matching
SB> the same underlying NNTP servers).  If not, the article numbers won't
SB> match.

SB> But what I have, and I'm guessing Ted has, is the same servers (in my
SB> case news.gmane.org, news.eclipse.org and news.opera.com) with a
SB> different subset of groups on different Gnusen.

SB> In particular, a different subset of gmane groups.

SB> And for those gmane groups that overlap, I prefer to only read the new
SB> stuff once.

Right.  My setup is:

work: server A has groups P, Q, R; server B has groups X, Y, Z
home: server A has groups P, Q; server B is not available

I considered storing the marks on a per-server basis (providing storage
for marks like IMAP does internally, for example).  But I think
gnus-sync.el can be used to synchronize more: the topic hierarchy and
parameters, for instance.  In this it also will be more powerful than
gnus-agent.el and that's why I didn't just use that code.

Ted