From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76924 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Cloud Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:04:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqr1huyy.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298045122 13004 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 16:05:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:05:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25262@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Feb 18 17:05:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSpa-00069z-2O for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:05:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSpT-0005tI-M1; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:05:11 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSpR-0005sw-Hg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:05:09 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSpM-0003OD-U9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:05:09 -0600 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSpL-00074K-8c for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id 6CEB116072; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:05:01 -0500 (EST) X-Hashcash: 1:20:110218:ding@gnus.org::jT8zlJc7rlrqNfP9:00002G/o In-Reply-To: <87pqr1huyy.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:24:37 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76924 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Lars Ingebrigtsen 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. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (NetBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1emKQACgkQH9p66AmO1g7rXQCfVeOsqfaTePM/h/RG1EgaORvc zYoAni5AZdxA3j+xX8rupA6T29mNTiNM =W8mv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--