From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75683 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus faces Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874o9f5qxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877heb8dy6.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87tyher330.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87aaj6qxzw.fsf@member.fsf.org> <8762tuqst1.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294836739 19973 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2011 12:52:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24034@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 12 13:52:13 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 1Pd0BP-0001iB-5W for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:52:11 +0100 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 1Pd0Ap-00043W-82; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:51:35 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd0Am-00043K-MU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:51:32 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd0Ak-0001yb-Rl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:51:32 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd0Aj-0004PK-I2 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:29 +0100 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C47A1C0F597; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB031C00201; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id F6zClxoCu2-2; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hase (ppp-93-104-151-163.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.151.163]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:22 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: You were s'posed to laugh! In-Reply-To: <8762tuqst1.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:12:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75683 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Andreas Schwab writes: > >>> A slow network connection is the only reason I can think of to >>> restrict fetching of new messages to a subset of groups. >> >> What about reachability? > > Well, if a server is not reachable or I'm not interested in getting new > messages from it, then I mark it as denied in the *Server* buffer. It's much easier to just switch the level. >> There are many reasons why you don't want to connect to a server now >> that have nothing to do with network speed. > > Yes, but levels are not the right tool for that purpose. Especially, > because levels are somewhat static. I haven't yet found anything that fits better. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."