Re: Discussion: To del cached articles upon zapping group info?

[David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>]

Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch writes:
> I said it should delete the cached articles, simply because they are
> no longer valid and will conflict with new numbered articles.  There
> is simply no place in the 1-* range for them as they have been taken
> up by new numbers.

	Well, it certainly shouldn't delete them, although you want it
to stick them into some other archive kind of group.  You probably
cached them because they had useful information.  But you obviously
can't leave them in the cache tree, since they conflict with other
messages.  You could probably roll your old articles into an archive,
set the new real newsgroup to a highish level, and drop a virtual group
on top of them to combine them.  Although this isn't a great solution.

> I suppose you could re-order them to something like -3 -> -1 or
> something similar, but I don't know how gnus would handle that (this
> is a new idea Lars).

I kindof like that idea.  Of course a couple places in the code, it
explicitly checks for negative numbers in ranges and removes them.

	When I have to change news servers, which may happen some day,
I'd like to keep my cache as enties in the same ''group'' without it
overriding other potential articles, and also not being a seperate
entity.

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