Re: Can Gnus watch a group for me?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>> Christoph Writes:
>> I would like to have that feature for a thread also ("watch thread" is
>> quite helpful in netscape messenger). The only feature i am missing.
>
> Actually, I think I want a "watch thread" feature; I just didn't
> think of that term.

Kai, I did'nt notice any comments on my proposal that nnkiboze could
do this.  But from what I remember of it, and as I said; I never
really got it working as it is supposed to, it would be even more
powerfull than a thread watch thing inside a group.

Isn't nnkiboze supposed to:

Find subjects (or other items matching a regex [including body I
think]) in a list of groups matching a regex.  And then build an
ephemeral or some other non-standard group that contains those
messages (really just pointers to the desired messages in there
respective groups)

This is something like a thread watch, but more powerfull because it
operates across a series of groups.  

Unless I misunderstand nnkiboze entirely, then what one would see
would be a new message indicater in nnkiboze:WATCHED_THREADS that when
you open it you find your self in the group it came from and in the
tread it is part of.

I've often thought that nnkiboze was very underrated part of gnus,
maybe because it isn't that easy to use.  Or maybe the code is
neglected.

Also in the old days before mass use of DSL and other high bandwidth
connections it may have been just too slow for home use.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you want, but with your fine
attention to detail, I suspect something could be done with existing
nnkiboze code that would make a very nice addition to gnus.