From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Why so many k data when just fetching headers.
Date: 16 Feb 1997 09:30:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24tfdb1b0.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu's message of 15 Feb 1997 03:58:21 -0500
visigoth@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu writes:
> Hmm. Does Gnus do anything fancy to try to detect if the news server
> provides overview lines? We use a little proxy thing locally which
> will provide overviews, but produces errors on "list overview.fmt".
> Will Gnus switch to using headers because of this?
No -- Gnus will try to do an XOVER and see what it gets back.
> Specifically, a backend that would take a list of virtual servers
> and provide each newsgroup from the first server on the list that
> carries it, and merge ACTIVE files from those servers?
Not hard at all -- it's just a SMOP.
> Can I get this on the list of things for Quassia Gnus, or is it too
> special-purpose?
It seems to special-purpose to me.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-12 23:28 Mats Lidell
1997-02-14 9:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-15 8:58 ` visigoth
1997-02-16 8:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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