From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42427 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend? Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:10:34 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200201100209.g0A29gx29335@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177665 11271 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23102 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2002 17:11:15 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2002 17:11:15 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16T4Rm-0005yV-00; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:10:58 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:10:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA05047 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:10:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23088 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2002 17:10:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23083 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2002 17:10:41 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Jan 2002 17:10:41 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16T4S9-00071K-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:11:21 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011719481 26651 195.204.10.148 (22 Jan 2002 17:11:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2002 17:11:21 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Hood's _The Year Of Occasional Lull_ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Copyleft, i386-debian-linux) X-Face: $0y_A~e&}nUN6(?T1E@F-c:r\r8Q6^F>,5::\p`m2zAN7E^0OuvEQzW!VZJB"?&m4hA,ZK[ 'dF,{K;UnxQ#Y_r}pEvD#Pf(na9+>8-y0.#f=Tu#"^(#^hnJn&fg5e4g\kzP`Nhx0eC Cancel-Lock: sha1:HblHo9pSQAcCpOOu8BKZ1YSawm4= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42427 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42427 Harry Putnam writes: >> Yes. It would make the Agent's storage not correspond with the real >> server storage, meaning that we would have to implement ways of not >> letting expiry touch certain articles, etc. > > But isn't that already the case? The stuff in an agentized group can > way outdate what is on the server. Keeping up with that difference > was implemented way back about pgnus-[20-21]. The real question is -- why on earth would you want to edit articles in the Agent? Why wouldn't you just like to be able to edit any arbitrary article from any read-only backend? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen