From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28348 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new feature request Date: 21 Dec 1999 09:38:58 +1100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165213 29417 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF5CD051F for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:40:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB12701; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:40:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:39:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29944 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:39:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.7]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209ED051E for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:39:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id JAA17087; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:38:58 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au: bam set sender to bmay@csse.monash.edu.au using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Laura Conrad's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:33:33 -0500" Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28348 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28348 >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> While we're discussing potential new features for the next Laura> version: What about figuring out a way so that changing the Laura> primary server doesn't destroy information about groups Laura> that come from a secondary server? Or better yet, get rid Laura> of the idea of a primary server altogether. Just have a Laura> bunch of equal servers that store information about their Laura> articles independantly. At first, I didn't think much of this idea. I didn't think it was worth the effort. However, I think there is one very good application of having Gnus independent of the news server - laptops... Consider this - you go to walk, plug in your laptop computer, and tell it to read from the news server there. You then take the computer home, plug it into your home network and/or ISP, and tell it to use your news server here. Now, it would be good if this could be supported, so that Gnus can still keep track of read messages, etc, even though you are constantly changing news servers. Or another example: perhaps your main news server is off line, so you need to use another, slower one, until the problem is fixed. Even better would be if you could use such a feature if Gnus Unplugged... Implementation might be difficult though... -- Brian May