Re: wish: nnmarc.el ?

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

Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:

> Has anyone given any thought to supporting the mailing list archives at
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com?  They seem to have a large set of lists
> (including several I'm interested in, obviously).  I could add the lists I
> care about to mail-archive.com, but then I don't get a backlog of messages,
> which I find very helpful (usually more than a current subscription).

I've had a quick look at the interface, and it seems quite sane.  The
HTML can be parsed easily, and each message has a unique indentifier,
so that Gnus can build id<->number maps for each group.

However, there is no overview over how many messages exists in each
mailing list archive, so implementing `nnmarc-request-list' can't be
done.  An `M-g'-like action will have to be taken to get the number of
articles in each archive, so if you subscribe to a lot of these
groups, it'll be somewhat slow.

If anybody else wants to implement this, I'm all for it.  :-)  If not,
I'll see what I can do later...

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen