Re: gnus-group-fetch-charter

[Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>
>> I thought it would be nice to have a convenient way to get the charter
>> for a group (like gnus-group-fetch-faq for FAQ's).  
>
> Good idea, but perhaps it would be more convenient to keep this
> basically outside of Gnus?  Like -- set up a server somewhere that
> will return the URL of the charter for a given group.  That way the
> Gnus source code won't have to change when these URLs change.

Yeah, I agree.  

Kjetil Torgrim Homme suggested something similar for the news-admin.org
domain in news.admin.hierarchies recently
<news:1rr8haruar.fsf@thrir.ifi.uio.no> [1].

If everyone used his proposal we wouldn't have to do anything.  Maybe we
should just wait a while to see if more people start supporting his
scheme?

[1] <http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=%3C1rr8haruar.fsf%40thrir.ifi.uio.no%3E>