From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11556 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deleting messages in nndoc? Date: 10 Jul 1997 20:23:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151246 31035 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA18441 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:18:08 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA32394 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:15:21 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA12755 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:14:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:13:00 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17483 invoked by uid 504); 10 Jul 1997 19:12:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17479 invoked from network); 10 Jul 1997 19:12:56 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 1997 19:12:56 -0000 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@xyplex12.uio.no [129.240.154.32]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 21:12:54 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id UAA03223; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:23:53 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Paul Stodghill's message of 09 Jul 1997 11:34:21 -0400 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.1/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Has anyone put together a patch to GNUS that allows messages to be deleted > from nndoc files? The main reason that nndoc can't delete messages is that nndoc isn't supposed to alter the contents of the documents it reads. Since it can't add new headers to keep an article-to-number mapping consistant, articles won't have consistent article numbers if we allow article deletion. However, this is only important for solid nndoc groups. There's really no reason why nndoc shouldn't be able to edit ephemeral nndoc groups, since the article-to-number mapping is rather up in the air in any case. So, deletion is (in principle) possible, although it would take rather a lot of programming to make nndoc able to do that stuff. Each and every document format would need its own message deletion/insertion function, which can get rather hairy in some cases. So I don't really think it's worth it. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen