From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/417 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Cacheing the active file Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:11:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1ycmbx3f.fsf@morpheus.demon.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667398 6765 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:33 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!opentransit.net!proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!C1S5EXCH.Origin-it.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.16.246.191 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp (Windows)) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:557 Original-Lines: 32 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 557 Tue Jan 17 17:27:33 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:417 Archived-At: Kai Großjohann writes: > Paul Moore 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.