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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: [RFC] nnmbox and first-time users
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:40:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3adxgrpij.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafd72c86ug.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:46:31 +0100")

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> We need to change the files and directories used for the servers to
> something unique.  For example, use ~/Gnus/nnml/unnamed/ for the
> server (nnml ""), and so on.

That would (I assume) interfere with a server called (nnml "unnamed").
Instead, we could use ~/Gnus/nnml/ for (nnml "") and
~/Gnus/nnml+unnamed/ for (nnml "unnamed").  Or something like that.

(nnml "foo") would still interfere with (nnml "foo/bar").  Should we
worry about such cases?  Slashes in server addresses could be encoded
in directory names somehow, but I don't know if it's worth the effort.
How likely is it that someone would use such an address, and also not
specify the nnml-directory server parameter?

> But there is a problem with the old .newsrc.eld files.  Using the old
> file with the new directory is going to be a problem,

How so?


paul



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-21 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-21 15:15 Didier Verna
2001-11-21 15:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-21 17:40   ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2001-11-22  9:16     ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-21 22:08   ` Christoph Conrad
2001-11-22  9:17     ` Kai Großjohann

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