From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39619 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: Protect against servers stepping on each other's toes Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:05:20 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87pu7irelm.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87g08bwr7g.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175302 28926 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9060 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 20:07:36 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 20:07:36 -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 15vlLW-0001iQ-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:06:50 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:06:29 -0500 (CDT) 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 PAA02482 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:06:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9020 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2001 20:06:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9015 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 20:06:20 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 20:06:20 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id f9MK5QG25121; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:05:26 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id WAA00279; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:05:21 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id EE2692019; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:05:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Matt Armstrong In-Reply-To: <87g08bwr7g.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (Matt Armstrong's message of "Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:54:27 -0600") Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39619 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39619 Matt Armstrong writes: > This is particularly dangerous because operations such as "B c" can > cause select methods to magically appear. I wonder if this is wise. Same for me. This has been discussed before. > I also notice that if I gnus-server-regenerate-server my "nnml:" > server, it gets confused by the Mail/archive directory (which is an > nnfolder: thing by default, and is placed in Mail/ by default). Right. I wish somebody found the time to implement the warnings that we have discussed a few days ago. > Have all these issues always been present? I think not. Hasn't > Gnus historically only relied on .newsrc.eld for group info, and > only recently looked at files on disk to try to find groups for the > backends? Yes, these issues have been present since day one. Astonishing that there is now such a rush of bug reports about just this, right? But it seems that's just the way it is. It was like that for me with Tramp, too: for weeks, nothing, and then the same bug report N times. kai -- Lisp is kinda like tpircstsoP