From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52146 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Kevin's gnus-open-server changes Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 18:17:21 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84znm67w92.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051892178 31430 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 16:16:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 16:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M689@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 02 18:16:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BdCq-0008Ao-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:16:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BdDy-00012f-00; Fri, 02 May 2003 11:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BdDu-00012Y-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 May 2003 11:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 37205 invoked by alias); 2 May 2003 16:17:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 37200 invoked from network); 2 May 2003 16:17:21 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 2 May 2003 16:17:21 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19BdEH-0004xs-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:17:45 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1051892265 18612 80.91.231.2 (2 May 2003 16:17:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2003 16:17:45 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: The Smiths's _Strangeways, Here We Come_: "Paint A Vulgar Picture" User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q2HhVPykcPc6mE7STcVoAWfHW3U= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52146 Kevin Greiner writes: > Should the plugged/unplugged status have any effect on a > connection-less server? For example, shouldn't the nndoc backend always > have a status of ok? Well, nndoc might read something over ftp... > I hadn't thought to write down my definition of unplugged but it would > probably have been: > > Gnus is said to be "unplugged" when you have informed Gnus that it > should close existing, and refuse to open new, connections to the > net. Connection-less servers are not affected by the "unplugged" > status. > > Individual connection-based servers may be configured to ignore the > "unplugged" status. These servers will, of course, fail if Gnus is > both "unplugged" and physically isolated from the net. > > Gnus is said to be "plugged" once it is again permitted to open > connections. > > The middle part hasn't been written as I was honestly trying to > introduce a bug fix rather than an entire new feature. If it did get > written, I'd probably model it on the plugged keyword already existing > in the mail sources list. > > So, those are my jumbled thoughts, I'd like to hear what others have > to think. It makes sense, and should be provided as an option for users that want "total" unpluggedness without having the Agent cover all the servers. (In No Gnus. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen