From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42226 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: wish: nnmarc.el ? Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:16:05 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <81u1trt90h.fsf@zion.bpnetworks.com> <81hepqlofl.fsf@zion.bpnetworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177494 10229 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:18:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6596 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 22:16:45 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 22:16:45 -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 16S3mo-0007uv-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:16:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:16:23 -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 QAA18965 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 16:16:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6592 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2002 22:16:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6587 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2002 22:16:11 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 2002 22:16:11 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16S3q6-0005lD-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:19:54 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011478794 21216 195.204.10.148 (19 Jan 2002 22:19:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 2002 22:19:54 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Playgroup's _Playgroup_: "Fatal" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: ;AW~*xho(-!:5$xMzKaR+u7'w{XK2wOU e11#G|+&mp=EE\Z>o3~N&]aFftEC;VPiN_R|8k>|{_f5\"m~;M;xq<53>?MTqsH Cancel-Lock: sha1:90OI3lOlRmWe4LjMg/TYqXwZAU0= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42226 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42226 Ami Fischman writes: >> 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. > > I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence. Indeed, I believe marc > will only show a month's index at a time, but gnus could be programmed to > ask for all the months that show up in the list page (i.e., > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&r=1&w=2 ). This would only > have to happen once per group (since presumabely old months don't acquire > new messages) and could happen the first time a group is subscribed. > Thereafter only the current month (or the current month and any months > between now and the last time the group was queried) would have to be > retrieved. > > Or are you saying something completely seperate? Yes. :-) If you do `nnmarc-request-list' (if, for instance, you use the browsing command -- `B nnmarc'), then that command would have to do quite a lot of work to present a good overview. But this is by no means a showstopper; it's a limitation shared by some other web-based back-ends. > I took a crack at it this afternoon (before posting originally), trying to > add source to nnwarchive.el, but quickly realized I really didn't understand > the purpose of each of the elements in the sources list. While I would like > for you (or someone else) to implement this, I would also accept an > explanation as to how to add sources to nnwarchive :) Uhm... Er... ShengHuo? :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen