From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4949 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature Freeze/Red Gnus Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:30:11 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.41) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145623 31325 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA12717 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:07:49 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 01:33:08 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA12332; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 16:30:13 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no's message of 27 Jan 1996 12:33:10 -0800 Original-Lines: 44 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.32/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4949 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> Steven L Baur writes: >> Given how functional/outstanding Gnus' e-mail support is, I'd really >> like to see the group information about non-nntp groups moved to a >> separate file. Lars> I'm not sure how much you'd win by doing that. It'll make it easier Lars> to pack up and move to a different system, but it should be possible Lars> to do that with the nntp groups as well, I think. (In Red Gnus, I Lars> hope, with some article number->message-id translation thingie to Lars> produce a "portable newsrc file".) One thing that's always bothered me about the current format is what happens if your NNTP server changes its domain name (ie. clue.callamer.com becomes twizzler.callamer.com)? Can I just rename .gnusrc-clue.callamer.com* to .gnusrc-twizzler.callamer.com? Or better still, can I make a symbolic link so the two are one and the same? Lars> But you can have several .newsrc files. For instance, my primary Lars> select method at the moment is nnsoup, and the newsrc file it uses is Lars> ".newsrc-soup". When I test nntp, I use ".newsrc-nntp". (Of course, Lars> the reason I use several newsrc files is so that I can have one "real" Lars> one and several I can mess up all I want while testing.) Would it be possible for you to make (and distribute) a developer's kit with something like this for testing? >> I'd also like to see nntp group information divided into >> server-specific and server-independent portions. Lars> The server-specific information being the article numbers and article Lars> marks, and the server-independent being, well, all the rest? Levels, Lars> scores, names, and group parameters? Exactly. Given how expiration times have gone way down, it is far less important in moving to a new server knowing what articles you've already seen, than having all the group setup information preprepared. -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.