Re: combining multiple gnus configurations?

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Ken Raeburn writes:

  Ken> I use Gnus at home and at work.  At work, I use our local news
  Ken> server as my native server, and an nnml secondary.  At home, I
  Ken> use an nnml native server (totally separate from the nnml data
  Ken> at work), and pull in a few newsgroups from the nntp server at
  Ken> work.

I've got a similar problem.  My situation is a little different,
though:

Both at home and at work, I've got nntp as primary and nnml as
secondary select method.  The NNTP servers for home and work are
different.

I use gnus-no-server to read the work email without trying to connect
to the work NNTP server.  This would deal with your multiple NNTP
connections problem.

Fyi, I also have just one .gnus file to read both work and home stuff,
but I've got different .newsrc.eld files (.newsrc-newswork.eld and
.newsrc-newshome.eld where newswork and newshome are the work and home
NNTP servers, respectively).

This wasn't my idea, though, Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com>
suggested it -- thanks a lot, Rich!

I agree, though, that it would be nice to read all stuff at the same
time.  For that, it would be sufficient if one had a backend that
stores _all_ information about messages, including tickedness,
answeredness, dormantness, and so on, in its own files (rather than
.newsrc.eld).  That way, one could just move around the backend files
and wouldn't lose any information.  The machinery seems to be there
(there's some backend function for dealing with marks), it's just got
to be applied.

Is this at all meaningful?
kai
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