From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38339 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: URL to (locally stored) articles in mail/news Date: 27 Aug 2001 09:41:38 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science Sender: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174218 21830 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:23:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28903 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 07:41:38 -0000 Original-Received: from utiw16.cs.utwente.nl (HELO utip202.cs.utwente.nl) (130.89.15.115) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 07:41:38 -0000 Original-Received: (from hoepman@localhost) by utip202.cs.utwente.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f7R7fcP00986; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:41:38 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: utip202.cs.utwente.nl: hoepman set sender to hoepman@cs.utwente.nl using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #U;T;~,y.iVz7!wB(gVzSj:j}x-tZr\v-PQU}''7h^>jaAM'vw1KA83N5/gN~kcktG%,>Q>""S?Fg`&U80!Vg=)El,s/W)W^ User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 38 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38339 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38339 Many times I'd like to refer to some part of a mail message. For instance in my todo lists or when I'm collecting material for a lecture or something. So it would be really nice to be able to refer to this with an URL like gnus://localhost/200108241647.SAA03837@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl#THE TENSIONBETWEEN "OPENNESS" AND "PRIVACY" which happens to refer to today's article in NewsScan Daily. (X)Emacs should highlight such an URL (even outside gnus) and when selecting this url, the right mail message should be displayed (formatted as in gnus). The scheme should be such that * the URL does not break when moving articles from one folder to another * if you delete the message locally, external databases could be searched to retrieve the mail * you could mail the url to a friend and he should be able to retrieve the same mail. The last two requirements imply that using the local message id as in the above url is not good enough. The closest thing gnus offers is fetching articles by message id (gnus-summary-refer-article), but this really only works locally (for mail at least), and only for the current mail group. Does soemthing like this exist? Would it be hard to implement? Jaap-Henk -- Jaap-Henk Hoepman | Come sail your ships around me Dept. of Computer Science | And burn your bridges down University of Twente | Nick Cave - "Ship Song" Email: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl === WWW: www.cs.utwente.nl/~hoepman Phone: +31 53 4893795 === Secr: +31 53 4893770 === Fax: +31 53 4894590 PGP ID: 0xF52E26DD Fingerprint: 1AED DDEB C7F1 DBB3 0556 4732 4217 ABEF