Re: Cacheing the active file

[Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk>]

Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

> Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > This would seem to me to imply that the killed list is saved
> > somewhere, but the server is asked about new groups. Fair enough, but
> > I see no evidence of any of the groups on the server which I am *not*
> > subscribed to (which would presumably be killed groups) in any of the
> > files on my PC.
> 
> If you hit C-k on a group, Gnus will store that group name in
> ~/.newsrc.eld under the killed list.  Does this help?

Not really, unfortunately. Mainly because if I start gnus unplugged,
then do ^ to get to the groups buffer, and press RET on my NNTP server
to get the active list, I still get nothing, even if the killed groups
*are* in my ~/.newsrc.eld.

Also, because they only get stored if I subscribe and then do C-k, not
if I was never subscribed to them. This is clumsy, and it also means
there is no way of me requesting a list of the new groups from the
server.

I guess this isn't possible :-( Oh well, I have a (clumsy) workaround
in the form of manually saving the server's active file, and
refreshing it occasionally (via a full re-read). It just seems odd
that the agent doesn't cache the active file for offline use, and
offer a "get new groups" function to keep the cached list update. (Or
at least offer something functionally equivalent).

Paul.