[AUCTeX-devel] Gmane subscription oddities for bug-auctex

[Reiner Steib]

Hi,

[ I'm not sure if the following problem is on AUCTeX's or Gmane's side,
  so I post to both, gmane.discuss and gmane.emacs.auctex.devel. ]

I wondered why I didn't see a copy of ...

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| From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
| Subject: Re: 11.83; AUCTeX toolbar
| To: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
| Cc: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>, address@hidden
| Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:44:05 +0100
| Message-Id: <address@hidden>
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in gmane.emacs.auctex.bugs.  I found out that it is on Gmane
<http://thread.gmane.org/87wt62rqkq.fsf%40neutrino.caeruleus.net>, but
in gmane.emacs.latex.preview.bugs instead of gmane.emacs.auctex.bugs.

If you search for "AUCTeX toolbar", you'll see that the articles in
this thread are distributed randomly (?) between both groups:
<http://search.gmane.org/?query=AUCTeX+toolbar&author=&group=&sort=date>

It looks like both Gmane groups are subscribed to address@hidden:

,----[ http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.bugs ]
| Group         gmane.emacs.auctex.bugs
| Description   Bug reports for AUCTeX
| Address       address@hidden
| Status        posting allowed
| Url           http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
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,----[ http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.latex.preview.bugs ]
| Group         gmane.emacs.latex.preview.bugs
| Description   A LaTeX previewer for Emacs
| Address       address@hidden
| Status        posting allowed
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My guess is that Gmane uses two different subscription addresses...

  address@hidden
  address@hidden

... and the first received copy "wins" and determines the group.

If this guess is correct, we should probably unsubscribe the
preview-latex address because all mails to this will be redirected to
bug-auctex anyhow.  Gmane should probably avoid that two or more
groups are subscribed to the same list.

Would it make sense to change the status of the obsolete groups
gmane.emacs.latex.preview.* and gmane.emacs.auc-tex to "read-only
list"?  (I gather that the address@hidden indicates such list.)

,----[ http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.latex.preview.devel ]
| Group         gmane.emacs.latex.preview.devel
| Description   A LaTeX previewer for Emacs
| Address       address@hidden
| Status        posting allowed
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,----[ http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auc-tex ]
| Group         gmane.emacs.auc-tex
| Description   AUCTeX - Much enhanced TeX support for Emacs
| Address       address@hidden
| Status        posting allowed
| Url           http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
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Bye, Reiner.
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