From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73659 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: nnir: Removing some search engines (was: Gnus search) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:34:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87bp6djym8.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87vd4n3m0l.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87wrp3lehm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87iq0necet.fsf@andy.bu.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288334094 27016 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2010 06:34:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:34:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22028@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 29 08:34:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBiY8-0000PS-Pm for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:34:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PBiY4-0004dE-9z; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:34:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PBiY2-0004ct-JM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PBiY1-0005xg-46 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PBiY0-0008In-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:34:44 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9T6YgaA022430 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:34:42 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC92D1068A for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:34:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87iq0necet.fsf@andy.bu.edu> (Andrew Cohen's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:08:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-wuwien-Metrics: poseidon 1290; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73659 Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 27 2010, Andrew Cohen wrote: >>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: > AC> So is anyone using: > > AC> swish wais hyrex namazu > > Ted> Not me. > > I'm wondering if we could remove some of these? I have been using namazu > up until I switched to imap a year ago. Swish has packages as new as Apr > 2009, but the freewais-sf webpage says it is no longer supported, and > hyrex doesn't seem to have any activity since 2004. So I would vote for > removing at least hyrex and freewais-sf. Is there a compelling reason to remove them? Please ask on gnu.emacs.gnus and here on ding (in a dedicated thread) if anyone uses them. We could also just mark them as obsolete now (display a message when using them maybe) and remove them later if no one complains. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/