Re: TODO idea:

[Paul Graham <pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu>]

(what's this anonymous@sunsite stuff)

argh.  this sounds like a recipe for disaster.  i think my system is
somewhat risky but this sound flagrantly dangerous.  i lock the active file
in nnheader.el and it to decide what the next file should be named (much
like the news system) but i still sometimes have a collision (for reasons
completely unobvious to me).  the insertion code won't overwrite an
existing file though so it's not fatal.  i just ignore the ``.overview has
changed'' messages.


    arne> I do not think this is a major problem. The active file and
    arne> .overview files in all folders that are touched since the last
    arne> time I run my splitting program is recreated from outside
    arne> gnus. So if nnml changes some of these files it is no big deal.

    >> This idea gests proposed reasonably frequently, but has never gained
    >> widespread acceptance because of the potential for bad things
    >> happening.

people propose it because it's a good idea.  of course if gnus could
incorporate 1,000 messages in < 30 seconds on my machine i'd use gnus
movemail.

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