From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Why article numbers?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 22:24:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fzqgggai.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84el60hvg9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> If Gnus stored marks for message ids instead of article numbers:
>
> * you could move from one news server to another without losing your
> marks, and without gnus-move-to-another-server, or what is it
> called;
Uhm... no, I don't think so. For that to work, nntp.el would have to
maintain a complete mapping between article numbers and Message-IDs
for all articles on both servers (ok, for all the groups you're
reading), which just isn't quite practical.
> * you could mark articles that were retrieved via `^';
That's already possible assuming the nntp server is sane.
> * the cache would survive server-side renumbering, as would the agent.
That's true.
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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-22 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 21:55 Kai Großjohann
2003-02-08 20:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-08 23:44 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-08 23:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-09 14:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-10 18:40 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-22 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-22 21:11 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 21:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-02-22 21:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 21:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 9:51 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 22:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 9:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 13:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 16:56 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-02-23 17:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-02-23 16:56 ` Michael Shields
2003-02-22 21:43 ` Paul Jarc
2003-02-23 5:03 ` Michael Shields
2003-02-23 10:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-23 11:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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