From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46856
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@twilley.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: How to steal the single useful idea in Outlook
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:57:14 -0700
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <86elbb6yjp.fsf@duchess.twilley.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033415938 26474 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2002 19:58:58 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:58:58 +0000 (UTC)
Return-path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 17w6gy-0006sk-00
	for <ding-account@gmane.org>; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:58:56 +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 17w6fz-0001cD-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:57:55 -0500
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:58:36 -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 OAA25489
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:58:10 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: (qmail 5836 invoked by alias); 30 Sep 2002 19:57:24 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 5831 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 19:57:23 -0000
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244)
  by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 19:57:23 -0000
Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 17w7Oz-0008KZ-00
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:44:25 +0200
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
Original-Path: not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding
Original-Lines: 39
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-188-219.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net
Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1033418665 30712 66.92.188.219 (30 Sep 2002 20:44:25 GMT)
Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Sep 2002 20:44:25 GMT
X-PGP-Key: 0x007F7B38
X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5315 7434 6095 DF36 995B  3407 18F1 527C 007F 7B38
X-Face: .NHAX*9Wpk.L>*/dOY%Tx85BIb;aN`:H*I7y}qDK{(&Q(zjfnli]\}|xh+mpp22}~9u.T[[
 zaK{BFgnXg'rBY+GiwLccR(O/iXq"_Fhrx0+%!1N}?D(mT{T$n_q}f`!f\(,@dR~*x&{_Zn^Qm)6rV
 ]E,6z3JLm6k<9>^9kg:#<J8>TU-S'a3{@c,rcT7YF`M*cCg_S0e1=C?!^kg-Wy]f+Xjpe#gB]>#xi=
 sa4'F#mX[QH^5}1B$0.s"6Y0R["ypG0mIe;8R6H_W]*_c:1|0Z^FgjUA?dCr`b[TX<Oz8vy6m
X-Attribution: Jack
Mail-Copies-To: nobody
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley,
 i386--freebsd)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:qwkO/Evl8KIBeT6jrqCMCeAduQ8=
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46856
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46856

=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1


One of the few features of Microsoft Outlook that make it worth using
in a corporate environment is the ability to receive meeting
announcements and automatically update calendars.  Unix has had this
capability for years in some mail clients (elm comes to mind) but it's
noticeably absent in Gnus.

What I'd like to do, then, is figure out the best way to implement
this in Gnus.  Here's what I see:

 * a washing function to snarf meeting announcements=20
   The meeting announcements follow a specific pattern.  It should be
   pretty easy to write some elisp to extract the useful information
   and ask relevant questions about accepting or declining and about
   responses.  The responses are also in a specific format.
 * functions to update the calendars
   Multiple calendaring systems should be supported -- M-x diary,
   calendar, and plan at the least -- so a simple API needs to be
   written and some example functions to implement the obvious ones.

What am I missing?  It can't be this easy or else it would have
already been done.

Jack.
(excited about Gnus again, a nice feeling)
=2D --=20
Jack Twilley
jmt at twilley dot org
http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQE9mKyiGPFSfAB/ezgRAljEAJ9E/hdQMsfSn+4VQ7iEOp/mG6xywACg2oky
WkwOvHT1UtwW4g12JNDCHEA=3D
=3DF96G
=2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----