nnslashdot

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

Hm.  nnimap has the same problem, I think -- there are some natural
group names that can't be done under the current Gnus group name
regime, most notably group names with spaces in them.

But if we just allow *-request-list to answer with lines that look
like

"This is a really weird group name" 9 1 m

then everything will work, as if by magic.  So I've done that, and
made nnslashdot use then (uniquified) article title as the group name, 
which means that the group buffer looks kinda like:

     81: Amazon.com switches to Apache (99/11/05/0947259)
    141: Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial (99/11/05/0814243)
    120: Checkpoint Porting Firewall-1 to Linux (99/11/06/1018228)
     79: Cobalt IPO Opens...High (99/11/05/1113248)

It's in CVS.

The more serious problem with nnslashdot is that when requesting the
comments strictly sorted by age (which is nice, since that means not
having to fetch the entire list of comments when entering the group),
all the threading info is gone.  (That is, the "Parent" link is
"cid"-less.)  Looks kinda like a bug in Slashdot to me.  

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen