From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8798 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Franklin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Discussion: To del cached articles upon zapping group info? Date: 15 Nov 1996 14:12:50 -0800 Organization: Computer Science, U of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Sender: paul@cs.washington.edu Message-ID: References: <199611131650.LAA17750@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148915 14414 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:21:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8897 invoked from smtpd); 15 Nov 1996 22:32:10 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 1996 22:32:09 -0000 Original-Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 23:12:58 +0100 Original-Received: from fester.cs.washington.edu (fester.cs.washington.edu [128.95.4.119]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.6/7.2ju) with ESMTP id OAA25189 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:12:54 -0800 Original-Received: (from paul@localhost) by fester.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA05198; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:12:53 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 30 X-Newsreader: Red Gnus v0.47/Emacs 19.34 In-Reply-To: Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch's message of 14 Nov 1996 14:32:29 +0100 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8798 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8798 > Per Abrahamsen writes: >> Maybe an explicit command to move cached articles somewhere else, and >> a warning in any action that would render cached articles invalid. >>>>> Wesley Hardaker writes: > I think gnus *has* to do at least a move to get them out of the way so > it doesn't screw up in the first place, and it should at the very > least warn the user as well. Preferably, with a prompt as a simple > message can disappear without the user actually ever seeing it whereas > a prompt will sit around till the specifically acknowledge it... Hmm. How about this: * Gnus asks you for permission to move them out of the way when it detects this problem. * It records the directory they were moved to in the group parameters, along with a group count. * There's a command to explicitly visit the old cached articles, based on the record in the group parameters. * It waits until enough articles have expired on the server that these articles and others cached can be safely renumbered and placed all back in the individual group. (These functions might also help with server migration, which has been discussed but seems to be another one of those things that happens occasionally enough that it isn't worth much effort.) --Paul