From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59810 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Soboroff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gmail-like mail backend? Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:03:01 -0500 Message-ID: <9cfy8dp4s6i.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108509051 27229 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 23:10:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8352@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Feb 16 00:10:51 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Bq7-0001hW-Go for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:10:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D1Brj-0000U0-00; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:12:23 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1D18xM-0000LV-03 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:06:00 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D172N-0002pD-MR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:03:03 -0600 Original-Received: from rogue.ncsl.nist.gov ([129.6.101.41]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D172M-0005ku-00 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:03:02 +0100 Original-Received: from rogue.ncsl.nist.gov.nist.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rogue.ncsl.nist.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1FI31dk023832 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:03:01 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:08:10 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-From: ding-owner+m8352@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-To: ding-account@gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59810 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59810 Miles Bader writes: > I've come to really like the gmail notion of "groups" (really called > "labels") actually just being views into a big pool of messages, so that > a single message can easily exist in many groups, and things that happen > to that message (mark it as read, delete it) are immediately visible in > all relevant groups. Another nice thing (in general) is that it ends to > operate on threads as a whole, rather than individual messages; e.g., if > you add a particular "label" to a thread, subsequent replies that arrive > in that same thread show up in all relevant labels/groups, without the > need to add classify them. Moving threads around is very lightweight. I've often thought about this, but in the context of nnir groups. (Think dynamic labels.) Unfortunately, it's hard to do anything useful except read messages in an nnir group. Likewise digest groups. Ian