From: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus Cloud
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:04:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <smuaahtz5uj.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqr1huyy.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:24:37 -0800")
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> You cloud-enable the servers/groups you're interested in having be
> device-independent. For me, this would be Gmane/Gwene groups, as well
> as my home IMAP server.
>
> Gnus will then ping the new RESTful cloud.gnus.org server with updates
> on new groups and marks. From the Gnus side, this will look pretty much
> like what's Gnus is doing now with IMAP -- we tell the server what we've
> read, and what groups we're (un)subscribing. Signing up for the server
> would be a zero-click process. I.e., you just say what your cloud user
> name and password is, and it'll be created if it doesn't exist, and if
> it does, Gnus will keep the account updated.
There was rightful outrage at putting private data in a cloud server,
but it's easy to deflect by separating the cloud concept and having to
use a particular server. As long as the server code is also Free,
people can just point their gnus clients at their own server.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-09 19:24 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-09 20:22 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 0:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-10 7:35 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 18:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-10 11:21 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-11 16:27 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-02-11 16:32 ` Richard Riley
2011-02-09 22:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-10 1:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-10 3:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-10 10:58 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-02-10 18:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-10 18:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-10 7:33 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 17:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-10 18:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-10 19:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-14 2:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-18 16:04 ` Greg Troxel [this message]
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