From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75247 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Re-imagining Gnus as a mail reader Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:37:52 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87sjxvdrcf.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87hbebgoeb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874oabp0s7.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292686735 12646 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2010 15:38:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:38:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23602@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Dec 18 16:38:46 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 1PTyrt-0000s9-9B for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:38:45 +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 1PTyrI-0005V3-A7; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:38:08 -0600 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 1PTyrH-0005Us-4X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:38:07 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTyrF-0002fD-Qn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:38:06 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTyrF-0001ub-3D for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:38:05 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTyrE-0000WN-Nm for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:38:04 +0100 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:38:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:38:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net 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" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e0OLdezDYNDyLZVfhlxWYL26s2o= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75247 Archived-At: On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:18:32 +0100 Julien Danjou wrote: JD> On Sat, Dec 18 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote: LMI> But, I mean, also about the marks storage and subscription storage, LMI> which would perhaps be more usefully modelled around IMAP and then LMI> scaled down for other backends like NNTP. JD> Oh, yes! >> I think you mean you'd like gnus-sync.el to be more than data storage: a >> search/modify facility that Gnus would rely on to set and get article >> counts, marks, etc. It would act like a general IMAP backend between >> the specific backends like nnimap and nnml and the general Gnus >> facilities like getting the list of articles and marks. Yes, it >> certainly could do that, and then it would be much more integrated with >> Gnus than I was thinking. You'd have to do a lot of work. JD> No. I appreciate the depth and thoroughness of your response. Ted