Re: Make Gnus emit more errors for unknown servers?

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> Or do you mean that secondary servers should be stored in .newsrc.eld
>> just in case they go missing?
>
> Yes.  Or rather, all servers that Gnus has heard of should be stored
> there.

And the server parameters in gnus-secondary-select-methods and such
would override those in .newsrc.eld, right?  Ok.

>> In that case, when would a server ever be removed from there?
>
> It wouldn't.

Then we'd be leaking a bit of disk space.  What if during startup, we
remove a select method from gnus-server-alist if it does not appear in
any variable like g-s-s-m, and no group info refers to it?  Or if that
would risk losing a foreign server, then we can just put these saved
select methods in a different variable in .newsrc.eld - one which
contains no foreign servers.


paul