From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46685 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clemens Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Offline mail and group cooperation Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:41:03 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <1y7jo90g.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> References: <878z1smmjp.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=latin-iso8859-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032878161 9094 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 14:36:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tqn9-0002MQ-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:36:00 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17tqj0-0005Nf-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:31:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:32:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA10908 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:32:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 575 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2002 14:31:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 570 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2002 14:31:24 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Sep 2002 14:31:24 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tqiZ-00022U-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:31:15 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tqiZ-00022K-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:31:15 +0200 Original-Path: ID-23066.news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd90559e9.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032877875 7736 217.5.89.233 (24 Sep 2002 14:31:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TsWiWeFe8DWPRFzSWqgjaEOaUZc= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46685 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46685 Kai Großjohann wrote: > * First of all, there is the disconnected thing. People access > mail from their laptop while at home, while at work, and they > might want to read it while in the train. So I want to slurp > mails from home, work on them in the train on the way to work, > then send my responses from the office. > > * Secondly, there is the shared email thing. People work together > on a project and all email regarding the project should be seen > by all people. > > * Some of these mails are todo items. It would be nice to have a > way to see which items are done and which still need to be done. is cooperation the central aspect? everybody working on and contributing to the same set of documents? that would be a wiki, but this wiki would have to be a little like shared IMAP folders with everybody having a separate, propably extensible set of marks and access rights. there would be public marks (ie. with agreed upon semantics), manipulated by a central mechanism, public marks manipulated by users and private marks with any meaning one can dream up. for disconnected operation, a local copy of something is needed, but as you can't be sure somebody else changes the same thing at the same time, you'd need CVS features. collisions were the thing to worry about: you'd either want to fork off a separate version or merge after discussion. every document in such a database would need its own list of people subscribed to notifications in case it is changed. clemens