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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Allow editing of agentized articles
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:57:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ofjqt34w.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k7uet545.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:15:06 +0100")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Why is it that we cannot edit agentized articles in place?  Are we
>> talking major work to allow that to happen?\Is this something a
>> no-lisp writing but tenacious (semi-literate) user could do inside of
>> a week or two?
>
> The agent is kinda like a local mirror of a remote news spool.  I'm
> not sure that allowing editing of that mirror would be the cleanest
> thing to do.  But perhaps we could just allow editing of any arbitrary
> message from all read-only servers by just copying over the article
> over to the cache, and editing the copy in the cache?  That seems like
> such an obvious idea that I'm sure it's been implemented already.  :-)

I think I lost track of which walnut shell the pea is under..
What actually happens to the message?  What happens to the copy?  Do
both continue to exist?



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-19 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10  2:03 Harry Putnam
2002-01-19 21:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-19 21:57   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2002-01-19 22:23     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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