From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28272 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laura Conrad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: new feature request Date: 16 Dec 1999 13:33:33 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: lconrad@world.std.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165150 29019 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B6ED051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:47:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB10225; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:37:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:35:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13398 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:35:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from gamesville.com (gtw.nineco.com [206.166.153.130]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2BAD051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:34:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from acme47.nineco.com (IDENT:lconrad@acme47.nineCo.com [192.168.0.54]) by gamesville.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA14308 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:33:30 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #0j-Ll[fajrfupWYMv&wa\m7!Sh=&3;JE-_&M-L,ULz(aE8iu%m1SHa5wG.V{3B:Fdnd/T# O -}0pPGYw%t1z`o&T_c=)p8l[}7R\={[@B*Jyj*.L4 hnJ*AXb Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28272 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28272 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... -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139