From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Re-imagining Gnus as a mail reader
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:38:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hf669t1.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjxvdrcf.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:37:52 -0600")
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On Sat, Dec 18 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>> I think you mean you'd like gnus-sync.el to be more than data storage: a
>>> search/modify facility that Gnus would rely on to set and get article
>>> counts, marks, etc. It would act like a general IMAP backend between
>>> the specific backends like nnimap and nnml and the general Gnus
>>> facilities like getting the list of articles and marks. Yes, it
>>> certainly could do that, and then it would be much more integrated with
>>> Gnus than I was thinking. You'd have to do a lot of work.
>
> JD> No.
>
> I appreciate the depth and thoroughness of your response.
I'm sorry, but I misread you[1], and after re-reading your message a dozen
of times I just understand what you really meant.
So actually, I think your idea could be very good if that's done
correctly. `gnus-sync' would be a no-op in the case of nnimap + a good
and usual IMAP server[2], but would be a file storage facility for other
back-ends where the server does not provide marks/subscriptions/whatever
storage.
(Not sure gnus-sync is a good name since I don't think it would be the
sync part itself like it is currently.)
Once again, my apologies for being a bit rude, Ted. :)
[1] Not because you wrote badly, but probably because I'm not a native
English speaker and your sentence sounded another way in my head,
plus that I merged that with what you wrote previously about
gnus-sync.
[2] It could still be useful for IMAP anonymous access, à la NNTP.
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Julien Danjou
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-18 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-18 2:34 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-18 14:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-18 15:18 ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-18 15:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-18 21:38 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2010-12-18 18:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-19 14:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-02 17:17 ` Steinar Bang
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