From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41078 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Make Gnus emit more errors for unknown servers? Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:55:14 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176532 4272 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:02:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:02:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16142 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2001 11:00:31 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 2001 11:00:31 -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 16KHDY-00019h-00; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:59:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:59:48 -0600 (CST) 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 EAA26215 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:59:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16118 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2001 10:59:39 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16113 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2001 10:59:39 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 29 Dec 2001 10:59:39 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16KHRy-0007WP-00 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:14:50 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009624490 28892 195.204.10.148 (29 Dec 2001 11:14:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Dec 2001 11:14:50 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: David Grubbs's _Aux Noctambules_: "Aux Noctambules" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\> The server should still be in gnus-server-alist, I think? If it >> isn't, it should be put there. Probably. > > I'm trying to suggest the opposite: when Gnus finds that a server is > missing, it should issue an error message. But wouldn't it be better if the server never went missing? > There have been discussions in the past of people who see lots of > strange servers when they do `^'. And even more strange problems > resulted from this. Well, it is valid in Gnus to just put arbitrary select methods as the servers of arbitrary groups. This will result in strange servers in the server buffer. Is that a problem? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen