From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29049 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wishlist for oGnus Date: 01 Feb 2000 20:49:05 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wvooqpy6.fsf@raven.localnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165786 524 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:03:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4347D051F for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:51:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB20486; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:51:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:50:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA07107 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:50:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from argus.csres.utexas.edu (argus.csres.utexas.edu [128.83.141.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38518D051F for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:49:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from cs9348-247.austin.rr.com (cs9348-247.austin.rr.com [24.93.48.247]) by argus.csres.utexas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFBE1E63D; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:49:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from raven.localnet (raven.localnet [192.168.1.7]) by cs9348-247.austin.rr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73ABD5013; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:49:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.localnet (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7813AAEB0; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:49:05 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "21 Jan 2000 13:55:52 +0100" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29049 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29049 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > * Create new data type `article identifier' and use that instead of > article numbers. A first implementation could offer something like > (num . 4711) but this could be extended. This would be useful for > using servers with *really* large numbers -- there we could have a > bignum type. It might also be useful for the nnweb and nnultimate > thingies where article identifiers are not really numbers. It would be really nice (if this is done) to go one step further and move to totally unique (within a server?) message ID's. That way you don't have problems with article renumbering, and you can use the ID's like pointers in other files to refer to messages, etc. This might also allow the nnml backend to be more easily modified to handle directory hashing to deal with really large groups without slowing down so dramatically. I also agree with those that want to generalize the idea of marking to support more than just a few useful ones. > * Allow sorting of threads by newest article rather than by root of > thread. This would be great. -- Rob Browning PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930