From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79547 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `gnus-refer-article-methods' and `gnus-summary-refer-thread' Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:33:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r55honjt.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87fwlxoui2.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87aac4di3r.fsf@andy.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311442464 23175 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2011 17:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:34:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27843@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 23 19:34:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg5j-0003JJ-Ta for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:34:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg5F-00075f-5r; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:33:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg5D-00075N-QJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg5A-0001rb-9o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:33:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg58-0005UZ-UM for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:33:42 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qkg58-00037A-0Y for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:33:42 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:33:42 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:33:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GZMBBmty1cZ8ghwBiqNRDDXzGsc= X-Spam-Score: -6.1 (------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79547 Archived-At: on Sat Jul 23 2011, Andrew Cohen wrote: >>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Abrahams writes: > > Dave> on Sat Jul 23 2011, Andrew Cohen wrote: > >>>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Abrahams writes: > >> > Dave> Well, as mentioned earlier, I'm only interested in looking in > Dave> *one* other group on the server. But I'd also like to find > Dave> messages in the registry and agent if possible (hey, why not > Dave> ask for the moon, I figure?). > > I wouldn't think the registry or the agent have any info that isn't also > obtained from the search? Well, no, but they can be accessed offline ;-) > And since we never know if we have found > everything we have to do the search in any case... > > > [...] > > > Dave> I think you have this right. Although, let me add, if there's > Dave> no way to limit which groups on a server are searched it's > Dave> going to be way too slow for me (because I have too many > Dave> groups). > > This will respect the `nnir-ignored-newsgroups' variable. Is that > adequate? If not we can always add (yet) another variable. Yes, it seems to be fast enough! Thanks again. There's another problem that I have more info on, but I raised it in another thread so will continue there. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com