From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52203 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Overbearing undownloaded face Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 17:11:16 -0700 Organization: Still searching... Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84r87gt209.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052007022 5792 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 00:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 00:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M746@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 04 02:10:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19C757-0001V2-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 02:10:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19C76H-0001Cl-00; Sat, 03 May 2003 19:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19C76C-0001Cg-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 May 2003 19:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23732 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 00:11:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23727 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 00:11:24 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 00:11:24 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19C74u-0001UG-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 02:10:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19C74s-0001Tw-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 02:10:02 +0200 Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3QHe17a/4ThYTCJR2WJ+IcS3a/M= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52203 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52203 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> I was afraid people were'nt following the line of reasoning here. >> Only SOME groups on the agentized server are to be downloaded, Some >> are read on line. The tick dormant and even read faces are just as >> usefull as they have ever been on those groups read online. However >> now they don't work on the ones to be read on line because the server >> is agentize and the undownloaded face overpowers all others. > > Big kludge: create two Gnus servers both pointing to the same NNTP > server. Then subscribe the to-be-read-offline groups from one server > and the to-be-read-online groups from the other. Haa, now there is something I hadn't thought of. But even with the possibility of a good Kludge like that, doesn't it seem only right that an undownloaded mark mind its manners and not overpower long existing faces? I think any undownloaded notation should be relegated to summary format line... It should be visible enough to those looking for it but pretty innocuous to those who want regular faces to work.