From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14176 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTHINFO Date: 18 Feb 1998 23:55:42 -0500 Organization: SunSITE Denmark (sunsite.auc.dk) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153411 13394 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:36:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22447 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:59:19 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05084 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:57:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAN12074; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 23:33:42 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:56:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04886 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:55:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12844 invoked by uid 504); 19 Feb 1998 04:55:51 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12841 invoked from network); 19 Feb 1998 04:55:50 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (qmailr@130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 1998 04:55:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25825 invoked by uid 509); 19 Feb 1998 04:55:48 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ljz.asfast.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 887864147 25666 (None) 205.230.75.82 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Quassia Gnus v0.27/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14176 dubach@dcepea.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach) writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > [ ... ] > > > Perhaps not, but .netrc is called .netrc even if the commands aren't > > really "run" there either. Dunno. I can rename all the authinforc > > things to authinfo (or something else). Whaddayousay, people? > > .newsrc also contains data, and not commands. The historical > derivation of "rc" isn't particularly relevant when its current > meaning is "configuration information for various software". > > In other words, go ahead and name it .authinforc. Another reason is > that it's more likely that people already have a file called > ".authinfo" with a different syntax, which we'd rather not force them > to clobber. (Or work around with another variable setting.) What about just .authrc? The 'info' and the 'rc' parts together somehow seem sort of redundant to me. Or what about .nntpauthrc ... ? -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com