A real question

A real question

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

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OK.  Now that the easy stuff is out of the way....

I want to convert my .newsrc.eld such that the default news server
becomes a foreign server -- changing all the goups therein into
foreign groups -- w/o losing any of the details, such as articles
read, ticked, cached, etc.

Ie, I want *only* foreign groups when done.

Is there any easy way to do so in pgnus?

I suspect not, so the real question is what-all I have to do to the
eld file to effect this.  Removing the default server from .gnus.el
and .emacs.el is obvious.  As is changing the filenames in
~/News/cache.

I suspect it is safe to assume that anything that matches:

        ("\([^:]+\)"

can be changed to:

        ("nntp+SERVER:\1"

Yes?

Is it really that simple?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

TIA!

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Re: A real question

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:

> I suspect it is safe to assume that anything that matches:
> 
>         ("\([^:]+\)"
> 
> can be changed to:
> 
>         ("nntp+SERVER:\1"
> 
> Yes?

Yes.

> Is it really that simple?

No -- you also have to alter the select-method element in the group
infos to be something like (nntp "SERVER").

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen