From: David Blacka <davidb@netsol.com>
Subject: Re: Hotmail back/front/middle-end was Re: Free email services ...
Date: 14 May 1998 10:32:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <koemxw7wk6.fsf@netsol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "14 May 1998 11:36:47 +0200"
>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>>>>> Andy Eskilsson <andy.eskilsson@telelogic.se> writes:
>> It would be easy to write a simple nntp-server program that gnus
>> talked to and fetched mail from, but the main problem is how to
>> post, and delete messages??
Kai> The file nndb.el contains the beginnings of a `writable nntp'
Kai> implementation -- it is derived from nntp.el but provides a few
Kai> additional commands for writing and deleting messages. I'm
Kai> afraid it pretends to work but really doesn't, but maybe you can
Kai> get some ideas from it. As you can see, defining a new Gnus
Kai> backend isn't all that complicated. (It's only my lack of Lisp
Kai> programming and my lack of understanding the Gnus backend stuff
Kai> and the nnoo stuff that prevents this from really working.)
Actually, nndb.el does work if you remove the
(nntp-possibly-change-servers) commands. My guess is the nntp.el is
not really fully implemented for inheritance, though. There seem to
be a number of somewhat cricitcal functions and variables that are
defun and defvar'ed instead of defoo and devoo'ed.
--
David Blacka <davidb@netsol.com> Software Engineer
Product Development Team - Network Solutions, Herndon, VA
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-14 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-14 7:55 Stefan Waldherr
1998-05-14 8:53 ` Hotmail back/front/middle-end was " Andy Eskilsson
1998-05-14 9:36 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-05-14 14:32 ` David Blacka [this message]
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