Re: What now?

[Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>]

>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

    William> Well, Emacs/W3 already uses gnus for that, so that should
    William> be pretty simple to do. :)
    >> When I tried it, W3 seemed to use its on interface for the job,
    >> and didn't use Gnus. For instance, w3 requires the NNTP server
    >> to be configured separately from Gnus.

    William> This is changed with the new version of URL - I am in the
    William> midst of rewriting url-news.el right now.

Ok... Thats Good.

    >> I seem to remember another difference: when clicking on a news
    >> link from Gnus, Gnus will look up all back ends for the
    >> message, but when clicking on it from w3, w3 will only check
    >> with the nntp server.

    William> Well, news and nntp URLs are theoretically just for NNTP
    William> access.  Gnus is not exactly envisioned by the guys who
    William> wrote the URL for news. :) I couldn't find any sort of
    William> 'get this messageid regardless of backend'.  If there is
    William> one, could someone send it to me?

Both M-^ and news URLS from Gnus seem to be able to fetch articles,
regardless of source...

Hang on, no, it depends on the current group selected. If I am in a
NNTP group, I cannot find a mail message (at least for M-^, I haven't
tested news URLS). I would imagine it might be possible to query each
back end in turn???  Perhaps allow the user to select order of
priority?

    William> THen they have been embedded in the document wrong.  This
    William> is what the
    William> <URL:news:t4in1ruvyij.fsf_-_@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au>... syntax
    William> is for. :)

Thats what I thought too. Does Gnus provide any macros to automate
creating these?
-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>