Store mails in news groups?

Store mails in news groups?

[Kai Großjohann]

WIBNI it was possible to store emailed responses to news postings in
the news group?  Gnus can already locally store news postings -- using
the cache.  So in principle it ought not to be impossible to locally
store things which were never in the news group.

Whatcha think?

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: Store mails in news groups?

[Toby Speight]

Kai> Kai Großjohann <URL:mailto:Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>

0> In article <vaflnb15y5l.fsf@petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai wrote:

Kai> WIBNI it was possible to store emailed responses to news postings
Kai> in the news group?  Gnus can already locally store news postings
Kai> -- using the cache.  So in principle it ought not to be impossible
Kai> to locally store things which were never in the news group.

How would you safely allocate a unique article number?

Re: Store mails in news groups?

[Kai Großjohann]

Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> How would you safely allocate a unique article number?

I don't know.  Does an article number have to be an integer?  Does it
have to be positive?  Does this help?

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: Store mails in news groups?

[Toby Speight]

Kai> Kai Großjohann <URL:mailto:Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>

0> In article <vafbtbx4exo.fsf@petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai wrote:

Kai> Does an article number have to be an integer?  Does it have to be
Kai> positive?

Yes, and yes (unless I've misunderstood something).  Negative numbers
are used by Gnus for the invented ghost articles that appear when you
build sparse threads and the ancestors are not available.

Re: Store mails in news groups?

[Kai Großjohann]

Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> [...] Negative numbers are used by Gnus for the invented ghost
> articles that appear when you build sparse threads and the ancestors
> are not available.

And is there a problem with also using negative numbers for
pseudo-cached articles like the ones I'm proposing?  Since both kinds
of articles are under Gnus' control, it can make sure that the numbers
don't clash.

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: Store mails in news groups?

[Toby Speight]

Kai> Kai Großjohann <URL:mailto:Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Kai>
Kai> Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>> [...] Negative numbers are used by Gnus for the invented ghost
>> articles that appear when you build sparse threads and the
>> ancestors are not available.

0> In article <vafwvul1ddl.fsf@petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de>, Kai wrote:

Kai> And is there a problem with also using negative numbers for
Kai> pseudo-cached articles like the ones I'm proposing?  Since both
Kai> kinds of articles are under Gnus' control, it can make sure that
Kai> the numbers don't clash.

Yes, that's true.  And as someone else mentioned, nnvirtual has to do
article number re-mapping and you may be able to reuse its code.

Re: Store mails in news groups?

[Brian Edmonds]

Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> WIBNI it was possible to store emailed responses to news postings in
> the news group?

Off the top of my head I'd think you could do this if you kept all email 
traffic related to group X in a mail group, say nnml:X, then define a
virtual group comprised of both which would be the group you actually
read on a regular basis.

Brian.