From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28338 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new feature request Date: 20 Dec 1999 13:02:13 +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 1035165205 29366 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:53:25 +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 F0677D051E for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:06:54 -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 UAB11216; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:03:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:02:49 -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 UAA17878 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:02:39 -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 0EFD8D051E for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:02:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA06114; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:02:13 +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: 28 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:28338 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28338 >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad writes: Laura> Yes I know that if you're careful about what you name the Laura> .newsrc* files you can probably change your nntp newsserver Laura> and still keep all the marks on your nnml groups, but I Laura> can't say I've ever managed to do it. Even if I did manage Laura> it with the help of all the high-powered gnus experts on Laura> this list, that still wouldn't prove that the Laura> gnus-user-on-the-street could do it. There is, I think, an automatic way of translating the .newsrc* files to a new server. It is documented in the Info documentation. I have never used myself. I don't think there is any automatic way of keeping cached articles.... IIRC, the info documentation says that these must be deleted in order to prevent confusion. The only way to keep track of a message independently of the server, is to use its message id, rather then its message number. Perhaps a new backend could be designed, that saves messages by id, rather then number. However, I doubt it would be this easy, as I suspect most of Gnus refers to messages by number. Or perhaps it might be possible to have some virtual numbering scheme independent of the server. I don't know. These are just some issues you might want to think about. -- Brian May