new feature request

[Laura Conrad <lconrad@gamesville.com>]

While we're discussing potential new features for the next version:

What about figuring out a way so that changing the primary server
doesn't destroy information about groups that come from a secondary
server?  Or better yet, get rid of the idea of a primary server
altogether.  Just have a bunch of equal servers that store information 
about their articles independantly.

If I've stated this at the wrong level of abstraction, here's a
different level: Right now, the näive user (for this purpose,
including me) who changes newsservers not only loses all the
information contained in the marks in the nntp groups, which you would 
expect, and which is documented in the manual, he or she also
loses this information in the nnml groups.  This is annoying.

Yes I know that if you're careful about what you name the .newsrc*
files you can probably change your nntp newsserver and still keep all
the marks on your nnml groups, but I can't say I've ever managed to do
it.  Even if I did manage it with the help of all the high-powered
gnus experts on this list, that still wouldn't prove that the
gnus-user-on-the-street could do it.

I have gotten much faster than I used to be at restoring the correct
marks on my mail groups when I do clobber them...

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