From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75680 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus faces Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874o9f5qxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877heb8dy6.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87tyher330.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87aaj6qxzw.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 1294824529 25247 80.91.229.12 (12 Jan 2011 09:28:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24031@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 12 10:28:45 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 1Pcx0W-0003Ub-Fl for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:44 +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 1Pcx0T-00037t-RG; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:28:41 -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 1Pcx0S-00037k-SC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:28:40 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pcx0R-0001Bd-BH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:28:40 -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 1Pcx0Q-000155-1L for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:38 +0100 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4C81C08DE4; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876801C000A3; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:32 +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 wvBG2-E0Lp-9; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:28:31 +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 10:28:31 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: My forehead feels like a PACKAGE of moist CRANBERRIES in a remote FRENCH OUTPOST!! In-Reply-To: <87aaj6qxzw.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:20:35 +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:75680 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn 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? There are many reasons why you don't want to connect to a server now that have nothing to do with network speed. 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."