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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:36:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0z7miv7.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bsfqt51c.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:16:47 +0100")

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>> Is it reasonable to think of making the agent another mail backend?
>
> I don't think so.  The Agent is a middle-ware layer, while mail
> back-ends (like news back-ends) are, well, back-ends.  :-)

Could the Agent be changed to use a normal mail backend for its
storage?  So agentization would be a kind of connection between two
groups rather than an attribute of oen group?  I think that would give
Harry what he wants.


paul



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-21 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10  2:09 Harry Putnam
2002-01-19 21:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-21 22:36   ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2002-01-21 22:49     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-22 15:58       ` Paul Jarc
2002-01-22 16:03         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-22 16:50           ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-22 17:10             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-22 17:51               ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-22 18:15                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-22 19:43                   ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-23 10:35                     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-23 16:17                       ` Harry Putnam
2002-01-26 22:27                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-26 20:35                       ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-26 22:28                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-27  9:44                           ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-27 18:01                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-27 20:14                               ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-27 20:29                                 ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-28  3:00                                   ` Bjørn Mork
2002-01-27 20:57                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-27 21:03                                   ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-27 21:16                                     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-27 21:09                                   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-27 21:08                                 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-28  7:38                                   ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-28  9:07                                     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-28 10:42                                       ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-28 11:57                                         ` Kai Großjohann
2002-01-28 16:47                                           ` Simon Josefsson
2002-01-26 20:32               ` Steinar Bang
2002-01-22 16:43         ` Harry Putnam

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