From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27959 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What now? Date: 09 Dec 1999 09:51:37 +1100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84bt8kpxba.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au> <7s4se2uqao.fsf@brutus.mts.jhu.edu> <66yh2sev.fsf@apl.washington.edu> <199912070536.AAA01920@wmperry.bp.aventail.com> <199912071609.IAA05231@newman.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164892 27325 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14739 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:54:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB22948; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:52:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 08 Dec 1999 16:52:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12765 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 16:52:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (bam@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.7]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14719 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:52:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id JAA08785; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:51:37 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au: bam set sender to bmay@csse.monash.edu.au using -f Original-To: wmperry@aventail.com X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:09:12 -0800" Original-Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27959 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27959 >>>>> "William" == William M Perry 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> ... syntax William> is for. :) Thats what I thought too. Does Gnus provide any macros to automate creating these? -- Brian May