From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28868 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Toby Speight Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: breaking up .newsrc.eld Date: 20 Jan 2000 11:43:04 +0000 Organization: Citrix Systems (Cambridge) 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165639 32059 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:00:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:00:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2315ED051E for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:44:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAB15114; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:44:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:44:09 -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 FAA14023 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:43:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com [195.153.38.114]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3F7D051E for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:43:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (sh.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.4]) by gatekeeper.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with ESMTP id LAA08084 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:06 GMT Original-Received: from hwav01.ctxuk.citrix.com (hwav01.ctxuk.citrix.com [10.30.224.26]) by sh.ctxuk.citrix.com (8.8.7/BSCF-1.7) with SMTP id LAA00257 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:05 GMT Original-Received: from 10.30.224.23 by hwav01.ctxuk.citrix.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:05 -0000 (GMT Standard Time) Original-Received: from lanber.cam.eu.citrix.com ([10.70.1.235]) by hwmail01.ctxuk.citrix.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id D23CQHVZ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:43:05 -0000 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List Original-Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "19 Jan 2000 21:50:31 +0100" X-Author-Info: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28868 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28868 Kai> Kai Großjohann 0> In article , Kai wrote: Kai> Sam Falkner writes: >> I would like it if .newsrc.eld were broken up into "configuration" and >> "current state (aka .newsrc)". I'd like this because configuration >> stuff is appropriate for moving between sites, but current state is >> site-specific. Kai> I think that we should have server-specific .newsrc.eld files. Kai> This leaves us with config info which transcends servers (such as Kai> the topic topology), but I think that can be dealt with somehow. This ties in with my wish - get rid of the concept of "primary server". Instead have just the list of all known servers. Things that need to choose a server (e.g. posting a new article from the *Group* buffer) can consult variables which say which server to use by default. Like (setq gnus-post-default-server "nntp:news.example.com") And provide a way of reading the cached articles from a dead server (guess whose primary server went away recently?).