From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16190 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problem with Groups of the same name under different backends Date: 23 Aug 1998 02:59:02 +0200 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 1035155099 26291 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:04:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA09186 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:11:03 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15304 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAK23007; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:09:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:06:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA22986 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:06:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp020.uio.no [129.240.240.21]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13976 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:06:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA01004; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 03:07:15 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Charles Reznikoff's _Poems 1918-1975_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of "22 Aug 1998 15:03:46 -0700" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.40/Emacs 20.2 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Starting from a blank .newsrc in a brand new account without a .emacs > I customized Gnus to point to the correct NNTP server[1], then I > subscribed to the group gnu.misc.discuss and created the nnml group > nnml:gnu.misc.discuss. Then I entered the NNTP version of that group > and caught up all but one message. I then quit Gnus (saving the > .newsrc.eld) and quit XEmacs. > > After restarting XEmacs I started Gnus and entered the > gnu.misc.discuss nntp group and `B c'ed the single message left from > the above into nnml:gnu.misc.discuss. After immediately exiting the > NNTP group the read message count is wrong and I see in the dribble file: > > (gnus-group-set-info '("gnu.misc.discuss" 3 ((1 . 2882)))) > (gnus-group-set-info '("gnu.misc.discuss" 3 ((1 . 2882)))) > (gnus-group-set-info '("gnu.misc.discuss" 3 ((1 . 2467)))) Hm. I tried to reproduce this from an empty account, but I get: (gnus-group-set-info '("gnu.misc.discuss" 3 ((1 . 47007)))) (gnus-group-set-info '("gnu.misc.discuss" 3 ((1 . 47007)))) (gnus-group-set-info '("gnu.misc.discuss" 3 ((1 . 47007)))) And I'm unable to get any interference between the nnml group and the nntp group. > [1] If `gnus-nntp-server' hasn't been customized and it fails, why is > the variable containing "/etc/nntpserver" not tried as a fallback? That value is only mentioned in the obsolete `gnus-nntpserver-file' variable. I've now marked it as such. As for why nntp doesn't look in that file... Uhm... Is it used much? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen