From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52780 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: synchronizing news on multiple clients Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 14:33:07 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nr86tcvto.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053455661 20258 80.91.224.249 (20 May 2003 18:34:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1324@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 20 20:34:17 2003 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 19IBtk-00054A-00 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 20:31:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19IBvJ-00080z-00; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19IBvB-00080t-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 35259 invoked by alias); 20 May 2003 18:33:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 35253 invoked from network); 20 May 2003 18:33:09 -0000 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (134.174.9.41) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 20 May 2003 18:33:09 -0000 Original-Received: from lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (lockgroove [134.174.9.133]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h4KIX7I21746 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 14:33:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id h4KIX7b28454; Tue, 20 May 2003 14:33:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 13 May 2003 20:13:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52780 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52780 On Tue, 13 May 2003, larsi@gnus.org wrote: > John Owens writes: > >> I would also like to use my laptop to read news. It can't mount my >> home directory. How do I synchronize my .newsrc files between the >> two gnuses? Must I manually run rsync or something like it to get >> the relevant files from my home directory? > > Yes, I think so. Someone discussed putting the .newsrc files on an > LDAP server or the like, but I don't think anybody actually did > anything in that direction. I'm working on an IMAP backend for file storage, which should be able to store any text data. I want to use it for synchronization among other things. It's far from done though - if anyone wants to pick it up, I'll send it over. I got the underlying stuff done, file-exists-p working, and was about to do read/write when other work came up. Ted