From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40478 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [RFC] nnmbox and first-time users Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:16:10 +0100 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176022 1110 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13433 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 09:17:28 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 09:17:28 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 166pyg-00028R-00; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 03:17:02 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Nov 2001 03:16:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA02829 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 03:16:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12913 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2001 09:16:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12902 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 09:16:44 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 09:16:44 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id fAM9GFh10736 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:16:15 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA23233; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:16:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 78866201B; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:16:10 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:40:14 -0500") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40478 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40478 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: >> We need to change the files and directories used for the servers to >> something unique. For example, use ~/Gnus/nnml/unnamed/ for the >> server (nnml ""), and so on. > > That would (I assume) interfere with a server called (nnml "unnamed"). > Instead, we could use ~/Gnus/nnml/ for (nnml "") and > ~/Gnus/nnml+unnamed/ for (nnml "unnamed"). Or something like that. Good idea. > (nnml "foo") would still interfere with (nnml "foo/bar"). Should we > worry about such cases? Slashes in server addresses could be encoded > in directory names somehow, but I don't know if it's worth the effort. > How likely is it that someone would use such an address, and also not > specify the nnml-directory server parameter? Whee. Until recently, we wouldn't have had to worry, since "/" was forbidden in group names. But now there is IMAP and now "/" in group names is possible. Ick. >> But there is a problem with the old .newsrc.eld files. Using the old >> file with the new directory is going to be a problem, > > How so? Because the new directory is empty (initially). kai --=20 Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)