From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76531 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Cloud Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:02:53 -0800 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87k4h8hfb6.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87pqr1huyy.fsf@gnus.org> <87zkq43m16.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297299923 18344 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2011 01:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:05:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24878@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 10 02:05:18 2011 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 1PnKyD-00050h-Hr for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:17 +0100 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 1PnKy7-00066B-NH; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:05:11 -0600 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 1PnKy6-00065y-Ez for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:05:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PnKy2-0000iX-EX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:05:10 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PnKy1-0007TK-Nl for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:05 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PnKy0-0004rb-Rc for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:05 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-76-83-194-6.dc.rr.com ([76.83.194.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:04 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cpe-76-83-194-6.dc.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-76-83-194-6.dc.rr.com Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PZGizQuuwjv5I/YbRrWhVKVuOKw= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76531 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > Just do a generic "send me all deltas since X" where X can be 0. So > then the client state is just (current data, last check). Yes, that's what I meant. > The time should be in microseconds. Probably. Although re-sending deltas wouldn't hurt Gnus. If you send the data "article 45 has been read" twice, Gnus doesn't really care. > A .GPG file could be stored. It wouldn't be synchronized, just set/get. Well, it should be updated when it's updated on one of the Gnus installations. You might also envision totally storage-less Gnus installations, sort of. That is, `M-x gnus-ephemeral-on-the-go' that would just get the data from the cloud, read a bit, and then exit without saving anything locally. If you're afraid storing your secret .newsrc.eld/.authinfo.gpg files on your device. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen