From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81414 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I can haz cloud idea Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:23:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87fwebnzd8.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329395080 14577 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2012 12:24:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:24:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Greg Troxel Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29694@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 16 13:24:35 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 1Ry0Nz-0008IF-Hl for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:24:31 +0100 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 1Ry0NH-0007l7-IF; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:23:47 -0600 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 1Ry0NG-0007kz-GL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:23:46 -0600 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 1Ry0NC-0005MD-B1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:23:46 -0600 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([83.169.19.17]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0NA-0003qL-Nv for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:23:40 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=c3lkYUgICsNpD4aXDxDI2QmVTtPVnNEBh0GrI2ijBYI=; b=JYvRwlR8ftMrGfeVjGkIICRRceVNTNXibt5YMtQ7ONy7UNiyovGj+yKr6WxkGvzpWniIwNnY0jNEoXNBSre+wt51sH7Q5+nneKbW0L9Gz7vy89QO0uUMZUzmFMelF1E7; Original-Received: from ibookg4-c2.pc.gwdg.de ([134.76.4.219]) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0N8-0006NT-9h; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:23:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Greg Troxel's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:55:53 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (darwin) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: Greg Troxel , ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81414 Archived-At: Greg Troxel writes: > David Engster writes: > >> Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: >>> But how about if we just cheat and put all the information on the IMAP >>> server? >> >> I think it's a good idea, but I'd like it even more if this could be >> somehow hooked into some existing framework for storing data remotely, >> and that framework in Emacs is Tramp. >> >> Ted coded IMAP support for Tramp a while ago, but it was removed again >> for reasons I don't know. > > I thin the key question here is > > Is what gnus-sync needs just a network filesystem, or something > special? Yes, it's probably leaning toward 'something special'. What I like about the file-based approach is that you can easily do backups. Having nightly versions of my .newsrc has saved me hours of work several times already. -David