From: Dan Christensen <jdc@chow.mat.jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Gnus-5.5] Changing news server -- how well does it work?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 15:24:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7zphcfiil.fsf@chow.mat.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mark Borges's message of "23 Apr 1998 12:23:01 -0600"
Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
> My current newsfeed (news.colorado.edu) has become extremely flaky,
> and I would like to move to an alternate as my primary server. I've
> read through the `Changing Servers' node on the info pages, and am
> very tempted to switch servers using gnus-change-server().
>
> Does this work reasonably well, or will I find some unexpected and/or
> undocumented surprises? In particular, I'm curious how the transition
> will handle:
I couldn't get gnus-change-server to work for me. I got lots of
errors involving sorting nil lists. You should be sure to back
up everything before trying this.
> (1) cached news articles.
Since the article numbers at the new server will be unrelated to
those at the old server, gnus has no easy way to handle cached
articles. So it simply ignores them.
> (2) nonexistent newsgroups.
I'm not sure if this causes a problem.
Dan
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Dan Christensen
jdc@math.jhu.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-23 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-23 18:23 Mark Borges
1998-04-23 19:24 ` Dan Christensen [this message]
1998-04-27 21:09 ` Mark Borges
1998-04-28 1:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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