From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9526 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: OffGnus Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:52:54 +0100 Sender: larsi@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no 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 1035149539 19038 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA09690 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:36:27 -0800 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@xyplex52.uio.no [129.240.154.72]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:11:27 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id XAA01731; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:52:55 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Rich Pieri's message of 21 Jan 1997 10:26:07 -0500 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.83/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen