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Hi!

I'd like to see a feature that synchronises two or more Gnusae in a
way that keeps track of read articles (mail & news).  The user should
be able to save points of synchronisation (probably lists of message
ids¹) and be able to load these sync files from within Gnus again.

Scenario: Its March, 04 and Joe Dohn is reading news at his home
PC. That evening, he is going to prepare for a travel, thus writing a
sync point "000304-home.sync" with all messages read since last² sync
at his PC.  Joe puts this file on his laptop and lets Gnus read it.
All messages that are listed in the sync file should now be marked as
read (i.e. not listed in the summary buffer) on entering the
respective groups.  As Gnus is synchronised now, it should start a
fresh internal list of read messages (initially empty).  On his
travel, Joe is getting and reading new news with his laptop.
Returning on March, 07, Joe writes a new sync file
"000307-laptop.sync" containing all read messages from last sync up to
now.  After transmission of that file onto his home PC, Joe reads it
with Gnus and his home Gnus is in sync with the Gnus on his laptop.
If he is getting new messages now, all messages that are listed in the
last sync file are marked as read (on entering the summary buffer).

Bad idea?  Unimplementable?  Major design flaws?  Can this already be
done with some weird scoring stuff?
_____
¹No matter if unique or not :), just a list like ~/.nnmail-cache
²Rendering the question: how to start this at all? Maybe putting a
 (gnus-synchronize) like (gnus-agentize) and looking after the file
 that internally records the read messages.  If missing, create it.

Cheers,
  Ray
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Raymond Scholz - rscholz@zonix.de - PGP - http://www.zonix.de/