From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52145 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 18:15:14 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84znm67w92.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <848ytp4kas.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051892061 30867 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 16:14:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 16:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M688@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 02 18:14:15 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 19BdAs-00080j-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:14:14 +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 19BdBy-0000wb-00; Fri, 02 May 2003 11:15:22 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19BdBu-0000wW-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 May 2003 11:15:18 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 37154 invoked by alias); 2 May 2003 16:15:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 37148 invoked from network); 2 May 2003 16:15:14 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 2 May 2003 16:15:14 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19BdCE-0004x6-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:15:38 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1051892138 18612 80.91.231.2 (2 May 2003 16:15:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2003 16:15:38 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: sha1:7kwsMP3wXshtUoHxRT1+0ZorqVA= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52145 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52145 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > The manual is hard to understand and possibly misleading, but it's > not really wrong. :-) Since the Gnus Agent doesn't do this the same way that other offline readers does this, the manual should discuss that. Patches, anyone? > Maybe it would also be nice to offer an easy way of agentizing all > servers where that makes sense (ie, those which talk over the > network). Something like a gnus-agent-add-all-servers command in the > *Servers* buffer, perhaps. Or just perhaps a command/toggle that would make `gnus-open-server' work the way Kevin's changes made it work -- deny all servers from trying to establish a network connection (whatever that may be) when you flip the toggle. (In general, this is an impossible task. nnml may access stuff over nfs/afs, but even if we ignore that, any of the mail backends may include ange-ftp/tramp paths, which means that they really will do network traffic even though you shouldn't think so. But I think we may just ignore that complication.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen