Re: 5.4.13 and virtual servers

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> Yes, nntp now opens a connection per virtual server.  I don't know how
> else to make things work cleanly.

Whatever mechanism was in place before, as of approx 5.4.8 and
previous, was better, if not as clean in some sense.  It was about
that time that the many-opens symptom began to occur.  Backing out to
that behavior, even if it left bugs somewhere else, would be
preferable.

Perhaps this could be related to how one introduces new groups to
Gnus.  I use 4 servers: My primary (general discussions) is at CMU,
and then I use one at Ohio State for about 5 groups, 1 here at JPRC
for local support groups, and 1 on my own system which is a test
server for INN hackery.  When I want a new group, I always generate it
with "G m some.name RET nntp RET server.name RET".  Does this generate
a new virtual server each time?  Would going into server mode via `^'
allow creation of groups with a single virtual server?  If so, how and
why does this differ from `G m' creation?