From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70166 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Doing some... maintenance Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:40:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87bp8jp1be.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87eidgqljs.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283255279 10153 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2010 11:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:47:59 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18552@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 31 13:47:57 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 1OqPJh-0000om-7e for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:47:53 +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 1OqPJF-00076A-UV; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNYZ-0006Ou-VM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNYY-0000BN-3J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OqNYX-0004QG-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqNYX-0008Eb-7E for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from eps142.cdf.udc.es ([193.144.52.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from aluaces by eps142.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:55:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: eps142.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c3lDW5HQX7bpE2kAi6pZxaXptOA= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70166 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> LMI> Should I just go ahead and do a deleting spree? >> >> Yes. Have no fear, see >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953481/restore-a-deleted-file-in-a-git-repo > [...] > nnsoup.el Way old code [...] > So I'm going to delete these eight backends (and some of them have > gnus-*.el files corresponding to them, like gnus-soup.el), unless > anybody objects. Speak up now etc. I think that soup mode could still make sense with today's embedded devices (cellular phones, etc) or laptops since a continuous connection to the net is never warranted. Could be useful with IMAP accounts, for example. -- Alberto