From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4976 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature Freeze/Red Gnus Date: 30 Jan 1996 17:29:52 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145645 31420 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA08370 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:16:45 -0800 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:29:53 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:29:52 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 27 Jan 1996 16:30:11 -0800 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4976 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4976 Steven L Baur writes: > One thing that's always bothered me about the current format is what > happens if your NNTP server changes its domain name > (ie. clue.callamer.com becomes twizzler.callamer.com)? > > Can I just rename .gnusrc-clue.callamer.com* to > .gnusrc-twizzler.callamer.com? Or better still, can I make a symbolic > link so the two are one and the same? Yes, I think doing either would be unproblematic. (But I think you mean ".newsrc-*" and not ".gnusrc-*" :-) > Would it be possible for you to make (and distribute) a developer's > kit with something like this for testing? Yes. But it's too much work. So, no. :-( > Lars> The server-specific information being the article numbers and article > Lars> marks, and the server-independent being, well, all the rest? Levels, > Lars> scores, names, and group parameters? > > Exactly. Given how expiration times have gone way down, it is far > less important in moving to a new server knowing what articles you've > already seen, than having all the group setup information preprepared. Yes. I'd hate to have to recreate all my to-address params, virtual server definitions, etc, if I had to move. Perhaps there should be a command for generating a "clean" .newsrc? Remove all the article number stuff and just have the server-independent things remain? I've added that to the Red Gnus todo list. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."