From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39313 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Change request: remove "/" from gnus-invalid-group-regexp Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:59:13 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175039 27226 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19189 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 19:01:45 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 19:01:45 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15tZR8-0001k6-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:59:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA27903 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:59:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19156 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2001 18:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19151 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 18:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 18:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7352 invoked by uid 500); 16 Oct 2001 18:59:35 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:50:32 -0400") Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39313 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39313 I wrote: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: >> Right now, you can't have two names for the same group because "/" is >> disallowed in group names. > > I'm not sure I see the problem. Ok, I get it now: Gnus currently prohibits group names with slashes. (I just read the other thread.) I think Gnus should not assume that backends can't handle particular group names. It should screen out only the names that would cause problems for Gnus itself. nnchoke-request-create-group should screen out names it doesn't like, and Gnus can handle that when it comes up. backends should not rely on Gnus to screen out names they don't like, since that varies among backends (or maybe even individual servers?). Ideally (or maybe not), backends could encode unfriendly names using only friendly characters for storage purposes, and decode them back for Gnus. But rejecting unfriendly names works too. paul