Re: wish: nnmarc.el ?

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:

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> I took a crack at it this afternoon (before posting originally), trying to
> add source to nnwarchive.el, but quickly realized I really didn't understand
> the purpose of each of the elements in the sources list.  While I would like
> for you (or someone else) to implement this, I would also accept an
> explanation as to how to add sources to nnwarchive :)

Having a quick look http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/, I found the site is
similar to mail-archive. So you can use mail-archive as a template.
The elements in the definition are as following:

address:  basically just a name, e.g. marc.theaimsgroup.com ;

open-url: a url to login the web site. For marc, it is nil ;

list-url: the url to list all groups, e.g. 
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/;

list-dissect: a function to analysis the list-url page and update
              nnwarchive-groups ;

list-groups: a function to update nnwarchive-groups for given groups .

xover-url: the url (pattern) to list the overview, e.g.
       http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&r=1&b=200201&w=2

xover-last-url: similar to xover-url but only for the last page of
                the overview.

xover-dissect:  a function to analysis xover-url page;

article-url:  the url (pattern) of a certain article, e.g.
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=101147459718342&w=2

article-dissect: a function to reformat article-url page

xover-files: a function to control which xover-url pages to fetch

authentication: set to nil

article-offset: a number used to map Gnus article number to the real
    article number.

I hope it helps you to implement the feature. Anyway, I think it would
be better if you put your code into the CVS, then I (or someone else)
can help to debug it later.  (Actually, I am afraid I have little time
to do so in a month. And I really got to find some time to fix the
yahoogroups feature. :-( )

ShengHuo