From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44132 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: building a smarter gnus Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 12:01:41 -0800 Organization: Network Associates - NAI Labs Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017777807 12056 127.0.0.1 (2 Apr 2002 20:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 20:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16sUV5-00038L-00 for ; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:03:27 +0200 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 16sUUK-0005hO-00; Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:02:40 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:02:48 -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 OAA04843 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:02:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 7633 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2002 20:02:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7628 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2002 20:02:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO wanderer.hardakers.net) (@66.127.127.227) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Apr 2002 20:02:23 -0000 Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by wanderer.hardakers.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g32K1hG02955; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:01:43 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:42:36 -0500") Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44132 >>>>> 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. -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."