From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31854 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nuutti Kotivuori Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: 'idea' of a new backend [bit off-topic] Date: 19 Jul 2000 17:52:29 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87aeferx3m.fsf@sonera.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168218 16425 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:43:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC28D051E for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAC25379; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:12:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:11:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22197 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:11:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from smtp.dave.sonera.fi (smtp.dave.sonera.fi [131.177.130.21]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD666D051E for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:11:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from kotivnu1-nb.ete.tele.fi ([131.177.214.96]:4151 "EHLO oro") by inside.dave.sonera.fi with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:11:28 +0300 Original-Received: from naked by oro with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13EvD3-0005o7-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:52:29 +0300 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: T-gnus/6.14.4 (based on Gnus v5.8.6) EMY/1.13.6 (Life is balance) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 10) (Capitol Reef) (i386-debian-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31854 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31854 Me and my friend were discussing how Gnus does everything already - all nnultimate and nnslashdot backends and whatnot. I use Gnus to read some other news like information that I parse into a mh dir by a Perl script. And I also download some cartoons from the web to maildirs and view them with gnus. I like ticking cartoons I like for later review. OK so. 'nnmp3'. Gnus backend which works pretty much like nneething. Lists 'mp3' files and plays them with a player. Would need a lot of extra glue for some things. Now, think about scoring for mp3:s - and adaptive scoring. Makes you grin, doesn't it? Well, I leave it at that, you all can think out the specifics yourself. I don't think that this is a workable idea - and even if it would be implemented, it would contain a lot of unnecessary kludges. -- Naked