From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81408 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I can haz cloud idea Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:23:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87fwebnzd8.fsf@gnus.org> <878vk3xhtu.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329384277 28753 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2012 09:24:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:24:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29688@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 16 10:24:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxZo-0000Jl-CA for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:24:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxYn-0006X8-6w; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:23:29 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxYl-0006X2-Ql for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:23:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxYh-0000kN-Fq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:23:27 -0600 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([83.169.19.17]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxYg-0007ay-0d for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:23:22 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From; bh=/AFaqG6C1ZR1iiTbL2cOPLbgWUCU5RCvj+9pYwrkCGQ=; b=pFPA445Quaq17cooqUsgOemEeuXTEqs7ASSjVc3iU/mEBVCqOWhLY4QKjH9TrNGhNlyKNNN35g2Ni15DqgjoUqJg7+v4vzGTkjHzI53fqw1oEuJJ3taTVAYBGoKNgb2a; Original-Received: from ibookg4-c2.pc.gwdg.de ([134.76.4.219]) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxYd-0000sd-Cy for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:23:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <878vk3xhtu.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:12:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (darwin) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81408 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > David Engster writes: > >> I think it's a good idea, but I'd like it even more if this could be >> somehow hooked into some existing framework for storing data remotely, >> and that framework in Emacs is Tramp. > > I don't really see the point of using Tramp. It would make things configurable. People could easily switch between imap, ssh, rsync, etc. for syncing their Gnus stuff. > nnimap is perfectly capable of up/downloading stuff on its own. And > this has to be done with a high degree of asynchronocity and waiting > on IDLE, etc, so Tramp would just get in the way. Yes. In any case, I think IMAP is the way to go; configurability is nice'n'all, but if it is too much pain, just use plain nnimap. -David