From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29274
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: IMAP server hierarchy as topics
Date: 19 Feb 2000 13:24:18 +0100
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <iluputtidn1.fsf@badis.pdc.kth.se>
References: <wtnn1pzpw2z.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se> <whaelhqla2.fsf@viffer.metis.no> <r966w5ay9o.fsf@shs4.idasys.se> <wh7lg7g2pz.fsf_-_@viffer.metis.no> <6e66vq4hcb.fsf@sloth.netpliance.net> <vndbt5dj4vc.fsf@camelot-new.ccs.neu.edu> <6eitzlvo5a.fsf@sloth.netpliance.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165972 1791 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:06:12 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:06:12 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>, ding@gnus.org
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49])
	by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F69D051E
	for <jason@mailhost.sclp.com>; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 07:25:10 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5])
	by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB09488;
	Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:25:03 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:24:29 -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 GAA21886
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:24:19 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from badis.pdc.kth.se (badis.pdc.kth.se [130.237.221.45])
	by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B158D051E
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 07:24:24 -0500 (EST)
Original-Received: (from jas@localhost)
	by badis.pdc.kth.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA05803;
	Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:24:19 +0100
X-Authentication-Warning: badis.pdc.kth.se: jas set sender to jas@pdc.kth.se using -f
Original-To: Chris Richards <cjr@netpliance.net>
In-Reply-To: Chris Richards's message of "18 Feb 2000 21:58:57 -0600"
Original-Lines: 11
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29274
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29274

Chris Richards <cjr@netpliance.net> writes:

> I have no wishes that the feature be generalized.  In fact, if it
> maintained the Xref and X-Gnus* tags, I would be happy.  It would then
> be up to the user to determine what other backend (if any) could
> read/write locally stored files.

Would `it' mean nnimap?  If so, it can't maintain Xref and X-Gnus
header since articles can't be edited via IMAP (not without changing
the article ID anyway, and then I wouldn't call it "editing" but
rather "replacing").