From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80132 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir, gnus-goto-article and such Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:04:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pqinvvg4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aa9pu1tx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878vp8nq6y.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjnfn486.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oby3jvna.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hb3viee0.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317327356 29810 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2011 20:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:15:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28426@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 29 22:15:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9N1F-0007nC-Pz for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:15:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9N0k-00015j-IF; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:15:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9N0j-00015Y-F1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R9N0i-0002OR-2o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R9N0f-0007QG-7m for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:15:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9N0d-0007We-GW for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:15:07 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:15:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dmxy+dgsh6J3vCPwLTT0o8pW/ZY= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80132 Archived-At: on Thu Sep 29 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > DA> Sorry, don't know what you mean by "our side." You can't make things > DA> precious programmatically? > > Sure, but choose not to. I think it should be entirely up to the user > what he wants to keep around. My point was that I could, for example, make things precious for the life of the ephemeral group that's using them, and the unmark them as precious when the group goes away. I'm just saying, there are plenty of ways to avoid sticking the user with additional persistent storage. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com