From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82435 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Why gnus-sync? Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zk3bzmon.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351109637 2034 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2012 20:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30701@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 24 22:14:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TR7L2-0006bU-St for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:14:05 +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 1TR7KR-0008M9-GZ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:13:27 -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 1TR7KP-0008Lx-R3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:13:25 -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 1TR7KN-0000zz-4I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vc0-f172.google.com ([209.85.220.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TR7KL-0005pJ-CF for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:13:21 +0200 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f172.google.com with SMTP id fl11so343566vcb.17 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:13:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=Rm1er2RMz5w+2rzAh6nfDtr9qh9V7dtgua89Udl/fsg=; b=MyJ0BGC7+dw6HE887F8xLa7tnkRUnLRYbk3wWm7tt034NuDLGSOfdld2E0dnNfYMqH mc8RgC4hFCUvMvtUZ21+G2Spv4Bs0EeZqPowM4+aRDHgCJwihO1NWFaaOgnzf5fBI8zX 5WoEdy3kQgoOLWI8fAHTA1LEXpkR+PlKAAjd5IKwaulML4Jf94OYOutJMuwXndBszdHc 8i1Ys+0/NOM+/MWf7gaNWKM694bjId9Gvlzz2sfQ02z6MhitVqymsXRonIC+C2yT4uGL xV308+viT6YJCUA9hKe/uaGNz9iNVZfAMdKjbu73vCKhQZujaHgh9kaMB52W9/2agJfG xLrw== Original-Received: by 10.52.70.8 with SMTP id i8mr22781501vdu.24.1351109594106; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pluto.boostpro.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com. [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i15sm17013275vdt.0.2012.10.24.13.13.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by pluto.boostpro.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 9D7F76853A4B; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:13:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87zk3bzmon.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:37:12 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (darwin) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkSauAGcOXVfIxWUJIvEaOgmei91/feg8P5rQwkk6uYwmSSxlgT/thgW1B21lIjzB6O0BGR X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82435 Archived-At: on Wed Oct 24 2012, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:56:51 -0400 Dave Abrahams wrote: > > DA> I was just thinking about using gnus-sync to synchronize my newsgroups > DA> across computers, but then I realized (I think) that I could just keep > DA> my .newsrc* in a Dropbox or some such. Is there any advantage to > DA> gnus-sync over an arrangement like that? > > The LeSync (CouchDB) backend is a bit better about synchronizing: it > won't overwrite newer data when you `s'ave the marks, and it has a > timestamped ID for every group. So you can read some groups and only > save those, not the whole file. So... it'll work if I read mail on multiple machines at the same time? Is that the idea? I guess I'd like to request a test DB, e.g. http://lesync.info:5984/dabrahams Thanks, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost