Re: 1) Trying to use `nnfolder' 2) Remote access

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE écrit:

>   > I also have another, separate request for advice.  Currently, for some
>   > projects I manage, I keep a mirror of my correspondence as a directory
>   > full of Babyl files.  I know that Gnus has the capability of opening
>   > servers on remote sets of articles, and would like to offer such a
>   > capability to my pretesters if the change in format is not too drastic.

> G f /user@host:/path/to/file RET  ?

Thanks for the tip.  It could ease access to a single file as a group.
Best would be to find a way so a user could browse all groups at once,
maybe like we may do already for `nntp', and maybe even subscribe to some
of them.  Unless such associations are necessarily ephemeral by nature?

Hmph.  I realize how fuzzy all of this is in my head.  For example,
could we say that a server is only a particular instance of a backend?
And at which level "ephemeralness" applies?  backend, server, group?

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