From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37848 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: Have `use-long-file-names' and `compress' as a server parameter? Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:24:33 +0200 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 1035173530 17760 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:12:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 821 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2001 13:25:01 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2001 13:25:01 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id PAA18169 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:24:33 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id PAA29884; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:24:33 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 2ABB4201D; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:24:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:37:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37848 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Raymond Scholz writes: > >> Wouldn't that be a good idea? > > Well, compressing files is something that I'd think you'd want to do > in a batch-oriented fashion since it can be quite time consuming. > That is, you get a gazillion nnml files, and then when you run low on > disk space, you just say "gzip *" in the directory. > > So I don't know whether this would be all that useful. It seems that there are a number of people around who want to tell Gnus "compress this group", and from then on all messages in that group should be gzipped (or whatever). kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory