Re: What now?

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au> writes:

> >>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> 
>     William> Well, Emacs/W3 already uses gnus for that, so that should
>     William> be pretty simple to do. :)
> 
> When I tried it, W3 seemed to use its on interface for the job, and
> didn't use Gnus. For instance, w3 requires the NNTP server to be
> configured separately from Gnus.

This is changed with the new version of URL - I am in the midst of
rewriting url-news.el right now.

> I seem to remember another difference: when clicking on a news link from
> Gnus, Gnus will look up all back ends for the message, but when clicking
> on it from w3, w3 will only check with the nntp server.

Well, news and nntp URLs are theoretically just for NNTP access.  Gnus is
not exactly envisioned by the guys who wrote the URL for news. :)  I
couldn't find any sort of 'get this messageid regardless of backend'.  If
there is one, could someone send it to me?

> (side note: I have seen a number of embedded URLs in news documents of
> the form "news:messageid...". Note the trailing periods. This breaks
> Gnus, as it doesn't remove them before trying to fetch the article :-( eg
> that previous article would be written as:
> news:t4in1ruvyij.fsf_-_@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au...  )

THen they have been embedded in the document wrong.  This is what the
<URL:news:t4in1ruvyij.fsf_-_@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au>... syntax is for. :)

-bp