Re: nnslashdot usage

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:

> What seems more aligned with Gnus' current situation is to have ONE
> group for nnslashdot, which got new topics as articles, and the
> followup posts to the topic would be threaded under the initial
> topic article.  This would allow normal scoring, would minimize the
> number of changes in the *Group* buffer, and in general, would be
> less strange to my eyes.

That would be more natural, yes, but it's just difficult to
implement.  The mapping two/from slashdot comments to Gnus article
numbers is fiddly, and it would just take lots and lots of time to
fetch the slashdot articles to build such a group.

I just put the slashdot groups into it own topic, and that works
somewhat OK for me.  The main problem is getting rid of the groups
after they've become obsolete.  (For reasons of efficiency -- if
you've run nnslashdot for a year, you'll have a few thousand
subscribed groups in there.)

Perhaps there should be a way to expire the groups themselves.  :-)

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