From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39308 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Change request: remove "/" from gnus-invalid-group-regexp Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:50:32 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175035 27179 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16108 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 16:51:13 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 16:51:13 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15tXQY-0000x4-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:50:50 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:50:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27370 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:50:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16098 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2001 16:50:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16093 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 16:50:32 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 16:50:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6956 invoked by uid 500); 16 Oct 2001 16:50:54 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:41:57 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39308 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39308 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > Well, Gnus should notice whether nnchoke-request-create-group has > failed. Some mechanism should be designed and documented, and then > all backends should be changed to follow that design. The "Backend Interface" node of the manual says: # Functions that fail should return `nil' as the return value. The mechanism has already been designed and documented. It just hasn't been implemented. > But what I was thinking about is more like that nnml.el converts dots > to slashes in the group name and then creates the right directory. > But that means you can have two names for the same group, which could > greatly confuse Gnus. > > Right now, you can't have two names for the same group because "/" is > disallowed in group names. I'm not sure I see the problem. nnml converts dots in group names to slashes in path names and vice versa, right? To avoid problems, it can just ignore path names with dots and group names with slashes. paul