From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42222 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Allow editing of agentized articles Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:57:51 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200201100203.g0A23nQ28893@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177491 10218 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:18:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6365 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 22:01:25 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 22:01:25 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16S3Y2-0007Gi-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:01:14 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:01:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA18765 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:00:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6348 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2002 22:00:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6343 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 22:00:58 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 22:00:58 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA62880 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:00:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0JM0Li24419; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:00:21 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:15:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 19 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42222 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam 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?