From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39515 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:46:19 -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 1035175214 28408 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14670 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 22:47:59 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 22:47:59 -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 15uiPT-0005vV-00; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:46:13 -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 RAA16969 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:46:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 14656 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2001 22:46:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14651 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 22:46:19 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmail-remote@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 22:46:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23315 invoked by uid 500); 19 Oct 2001 22:46:41 -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 "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:37:08 +0200") Original-Lines: 31 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:39515 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39515 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >> I think much of this could be prevented by using different defaults >> for different backends, or (like nnmaildir does) by requiring the user >> to explicitly specify a directory in the server parameters. >=20 > It's too late now. Imagine the huge number of people out there with > (nnml "") in their gnus-secondary-select-methods. Yeah. Just wishful thinking, I guess. >> Putting it in the active file would mean we aren't protected against >> other Emacsen, but in that case a nonpersistent variable will do; it >> doesn't need to be saved anywhere. >=20 > Maybe some crooked mind does something like this: >=20 > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods=20 > '(nnfolder "a" > (nnfolder-directory "/tmp/a") > (nnfolder-active-file "/tmp/active"))) > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods=20 > '(nnfolder "b" > (nnfolder-directory "/tmp/b") > (nnfolder-active-file "/tmp/active"))) Well, marking the directory (by whatever means) won't help there. Should there be a gnus-occupied-active-files as well? paul