From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48317 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-group-fetch-charter Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:00:56 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041203320 16748 80.91.224.249 (29 Dec 2002 23:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 23:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from util1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18SmXu-0004Lz-00 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:08:39 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by util1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18SmUJ-0008MT-00; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:04:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:04:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10715 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:03:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18SmSQ-0005SU-00 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:02:58 +0100 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0xc3f98251.esnxr3.ras.tele.dk Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041202978 20985 195.249.130.81 (29 Dec 2002 23:02:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Dec 2002 23:02:58 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YXZBpTNcWLdviTX1HcdFTnOCMtM= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48317 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48317 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Jesper Harder 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 [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]