From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29937 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: deja interface Date: 20 Apr 2000 15:43:18 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166530 5638 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44061D0521 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:51:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB20058; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:50:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:50:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18325 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:50:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 07864D0521 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:50:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 6610 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2000 22:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (root@209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 22:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA10280; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:50:21 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "03 Mar 2000 11:04:48 -0800" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 95 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29937 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29937 Harry Putnam writes: > I'm getting better at using `G w'... what a nice tool. Reading > Deja.com with a hardcore newsreader is the way to go. >=20 > I noticed a recent attempt by one author to supply something vaguely > similar in a text based (perl) interface to Deja.com. >=20 > http://wildspark.com/asher/ija/ >=20 > Its kind of cool but suffers from the same basic combersom setup as > Deja itself. And allows no way to further refine a search like > limiting or regexp search of displayed messages like gnus does. >=20 > You have to do it all with the search string. >=20 > One cool thing it does have is something that would make a nice > addition to gnus. Its "a" command, which fetches an "author profile". >=20 > This seems to just consist of the number of posts but still it is fun > to see how prolific an author is. >=20 > Such things as: >=20 > a Kai Grossjohann > 5298 by Kai Grossjohann >=20 > a Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > 5834 by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen >=20 > (Can't vouch for the accuracy) >=20 > Shows what busy people some of our favorite posters are. >=20 > Can we have an "a" command? .... yeah yeah Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: >=20 > > One cool thing it does have is something that would make a nice > > addition to gnus. Its "a" command, which fetches an "author profil= e". >=20 > [...] >=20 > > Can we have an "a" command? .... yeah yeah >=20 > I think that's kinda beyond the scope of a newsreader. Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >=20 > > Harry Putnam writes: > >=20 > > > One cool thing it does have is something that would make a nice > > > addition to gnus. Its "a" command, which fetches an "author prof= ile". > > [...] > > I think that's kinda beyond the scope of a newsreader. >=20 > I'm not sure what we're talking about (I don't have Harry's article > anymore), but if we're talking about the Deja.com author profile, then > it's just a list of groups with # of messages, and upon entering a > group, you get a list of messages. >=20 > It has as least as much to do with newsreaders as nneething :-) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 > > I'm not sure what we're talking about (I don't have Harry's article > > anymore), but if we're talking about the Deja.com author profile, >=20 > We are.=20 >=20 > > then it's just a list of groups with # of messages, and upon > > entering a group, you get a list of messages. > >=20 > > It has as least as much to do with newsreaders as nneething :-) >=20 > Exactly. :-) "nneething" or `B i' in summary buffer (`gnus-summary-import-article'), or "nndir", "nndoc" or fetching a FAQ = from newsgroups... or having a plethora of mail functions and backends. Besides think of how ultra .. like ... beyond clever it would be to incorporate the "a" command into gnus as "aneething" ... he he.