From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65321 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Is this patch of gnus/pop3.el reasonable? Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:16:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85ir5r2302.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191262797 4848 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2007 18:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Zhang Wei Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 01 20:19:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcPru-0001aJ-C7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:19:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPrq-0003ot-7L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:19:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPqO-0002ju-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPqN-0002iR-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcPqN-0002iC-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcPqK-0000Yn-J9; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.205] ([71.124.222.175]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JP8009E0W3OBTL0@vms046.mailsrvcs.net>; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:16:38 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80105 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65321 Archived-At: On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Zhang Wei wrote: > The current version of pop3.el is quite different from that of xemacs, > it still didn't support UIDL command, which is quite urgent to prevent > gnus from fetching the same message repeatedly while messages are kept > on the server. UIDL does not exist in RFC 1460, the spec that was current when I wrote pop3.el. I wrote pop3.el because I had a need for it. If you have need of something new then you should write it. That is part of the nature of free software. -- \m/ (--) \m/