Re: building a smarter gnus

[Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:42:36 -0500, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:

Paul> The manual used to say "backend", but it was changed at RMS's request.
Paul> Feel free to let him know how much you appreciate it. :)

I hate to ask, but why?  (I'm sure it was on this list and I missed it).

Paul> And while we're at it, we can make this new function return the
Paul> headers as a Lisp object instead of in the " *nntpd*" buffer.  nntp is
Paul> the only backend that *really* needs to parse all that text.  Backends
Paul> that determine their own NOV data storage format can choose a format
Paul> designed to work well with whatever Gnus<->backend interface we come
Paul> up with, so we might as well choose an interface that makes less work
Paul> for Gnus.

Good idea.

>> Yeah, that seems sensible to me.  Now, who's going to implement the
>> support for doing this :-)

Paul> I'll take a look at it after I finish some work on nnmaildir.

Excellent.

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