On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> The FSF wants to have a copyright assignment for everything that is
> part of Emacs.  This way, when somebody violates the GPL, the FSF can
> defend it.  I understand that if many people hold the copyright for
> pieces of Emacs, then those people would have to cooperate to defend
> the copyright.

That sounds perfectly reasonable.  But what do I have to do to assign all
copyrights to the FSF?  (I've checked the FSF homepage, but haven't found
the HOW, only the WHY.)

> As an example, here is how Gnus invokes nnchoke-request-article:
[...]
> You have a function gnus-group-article-list which is intended to do
> the same, but it uses a different mechanism.  For example, the

Wow, that's cool.  Thanks for letting me know.

> I hope I'm not offending you with this stuff, I think you have a

Not offended, on the contrary.


So, I've recoded it following your guidelines.  In fact, I've found a
function called gnus-request-group-articles, which, according to its
docstring, is doing the same as gnus-group-article-list.  There was no
equivalent backend function for nnml, so I've done that, but there *was*
one for the nntp backend, which always returned t instead of a list of
article numbers.  As far as I could tell, these functions weren't used at
all, so I removed nntp-request-group-articles with another patch. :-{

I could have taken the other road and added a new function (say,
gnus-request-group-artcile-list) to gnus-int.el which seemingly does the
same, but that doesn't sound good either.  What do you think?

New patches are attached.

David