From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/518 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Babcock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Can Gnus handle multiple ISPs? Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 05:21:15 GMT Organization: Not organized Message-ID: References: <958686cf.0205250726.5867ff99@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667495 7284 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:31:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:42 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!207.217.77.43.MISMATCH!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!0053d051!not-for-mail Original-Sender: Bob@standalone Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.121.220.207 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1022476875 165.121.220.207 (Sun, 26 May 2002 22:21:15 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:21:15 PDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:658 Original-Lines: 15 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 658 Tue Jan 17 17:27:42 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:518 Archived-At: > I wouldn't be at all surprised if toggling the definition of > gnus-select-method made something break, especially if the servers' article > numbers aren't synchronized. It seems pretty robust; I've been using this method for handling multiple servers for a while without problems. But perhaps I'm asking for trouble by not using gnus the way the authors expect. I also change gnus-select-method to deal with my isp's 6 synchronized news servers when some of them are down or overloaded. Here I want articles marked as read on one server to be marked on all the others, so I change gnus-select-method after .newsrc-servername has been read. Amazingly I seem to be able to mostly get away with doing this. I do get "wrong type argument: processp, nil" errors when a server rejects a connection. Someday I'll figure out how to use the elisp debugger and see where these come from.