From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46663 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Offline mail and group cooperation Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:19:22 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878z1smmjp.fsf@emacswiki.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032815967 18999 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2002 21:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:19:27 +0000 (UTC) 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 17tac1-0004wG-00 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:19:25 +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 17taZj-0001ZN-00; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:17:41 -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 QAA09133 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:17:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4468 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2002 21:16:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4463 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2002 21:16:34 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Sep 2002 21:16:34 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17tbFb-00035o-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 00:00:19 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dclient217-162-239-98.hispeed.ch Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1032818419 10940 217.162.239.98 (23 Sep 2002 22:00:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 2002 22:00:19 GMT X-Face: ^BC$`[IcggstLPyen&dqF+b2'zyK#r.mU*'Nms}@&4zw%SJ#5!/7SMVjBS7'lb;QK)|IPU5U'o1'522W4TyzB3Ab*IBo^iw]l4|kUbdZuUDO6=Um-.4IzhNiV'B"@K#jy_(wW|Zbk[34flKY^|PrQ?$u2\fKg^]AY>wOX#H32i User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EB7+kw5YJfo/l/fRn4IqhWyNyk0= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46663 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46663 grossjoh@lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > I'm interested in the general approach to doing things at this time, > I think I can work out the nitty-gritty details later on. All > comments appreciated. At work, most use Outlook and IMAP, and confusion abounds: they don't split mails into groups, if they do, everybody has his own system. I am the only one using Gnus and POP3, and I have a local copy of all the mails on my computer. This works perfectly well. I can use Gnus, and if all fails, I can grep. It turns out that I have around 700MB of mails on my HD, but who cares. When other people are looking for that missing email, they still have to ask me, because I am sure to have it. So my advice is: Everybody having his own setup works, so why fix it? > We are a bunch of folks all using Gnus. Soon we will all have > laptops and work on them at home, at work, and in the train. So now > is the time to think about disconnected usage. We also cooperate, > ie we have common groups we post to. > ... > And then, still, we could go the low-tech approach: instead of > common groups or shared folders, we just have mail aliases and > everybody has their own copy of the message. Your description did not contain any problem to solve. What is the problem you have with disconnected usage? All I can think of is "If I move a mail from folder X to folder Y, everybody else should move that mail from folder X to folder Y." Is this an accurate description of the problem? Perhaps another problem is that "I want all coworkers to have the mails in the same folders as I do." -- but really, why do you want that? So basically, before you start looking for a solution, you need to specify the problem. ;) Alex.