Re: OffGnus

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> writes:

> How does it "know" that the connection has come up? 

The user says so.  This is what Agent does -- the user taps `C-o' to
let Agent know that it's online.

> I think I like "nnagent" as a name.

And they probably won't sue me.  :-)

> And I still think that the backend should borrow heavilly from nnml.
> The news spool format is the most effective method of storing news -- it
> is somewhat wasteful in disk space (depends on how big your inodes or
> clusters are), but is faster for reading and requires much less memory
> to process.  nnml duplicates this format, so you might as well use that
> code for something.

Yes -- I'll probably take much code from nnml and gnus-cache, but
since the requirements are somewhat different (for instance, it should
be possible to heed Supersedes), the code probably can't be shared
directly.  To make it efficient, it's a possibility that I'll have to
use some sort of external (or internal) data base system or
something...

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen