From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82436 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why gnus-sync? Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:43:41 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lievzgtu.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87zk3bzmon.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351115087 17286 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2012 21:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30702@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 24 23:44:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TR8kt-0005P9-8M for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:44:51 +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 1TR8ju-0000JF-Fo; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:43:50 -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 1TR8jr-0000J4-Tt for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TR8jp-0005Sk-2t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from z.lifelogs.com ([173.255.230.239]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TR8jn-0007n7-GF for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:43:43 +0200 Original-Received: from heechee (c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net [76.28.40.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tzz) by z.lifelogs.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 349176E55E; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:43:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:13:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82436 Archived-At: On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:13:10 -0400 Dave Abrahams wrote: DA> on Wed Oct 24 2012, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:56:51 -0400 Dave Abrahams wrote: >> DA> I was just thinking about using gnus-sync to synchronize my newsgroups DA> across computers, but then I realized (I think) that I could just keep DA> my .newsrc* in a Dropbox or some such. Is there any advantage to DA> gnus-sync over an arrangement like that? >> >> The LeSync (CouchDB) backend is a bit better about synchronizing: it >> won't overwrite newer data when you `s'ave the marks, and it has a >> timestamped ID for every group. So you can read some groups and only >> save those, not the whole file. DA> So... it'll work if I read mail on multiple machines at the same DA> time? Is that the idea? DA> I guess I'd like to request a test DB, e.g. DA> http://lesync.info:5984/dabrahams Sure. I plan to redo the backend Very Soon (November) to use IMAP as the storage mechanism, and to integrate gnus-sync with Gnus better. Do you want to wait for that, or try the current form? If you want to try it now, I'll create a DB for you! Thanks Ted