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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