From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38814 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: announce: nnmaildir 2001.09.11 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:55:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174619 24518 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14677 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2001 17:57:10 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 17:57:10 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8IHu2U19939; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:56:02 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id TAA22199; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:55:57 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 3F2BC20B0; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: prjware@multivac.STUDENT.cwru.edu In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:01:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38814 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > "Jason R. Mastaler" wrote: > > Any reason why nnmaildir isn't distributed with Gnus? > > I asked how that might happen when I first started and got no > response. I gather that it would require copyright assignment or > placing it in the public domain; I don't know if there are any other > obstacles. You need to sign a copyright assignment. I'll send you something to request a copyright assignment form. One other thing would be to include its documentation in the normal Gnus info file. > I think perhaps the only significant benefit would be visibility, > though, and that purpose could be served just as well by adding some > links to the manual, the gnus.org site, etc., pointing to nnmaildir, > nnir, and other such useful Gnus-related bits. It would be way cool if nnmaildir was part of Gnus. I don't use it, but I think it's good stuff. People ought to be able to profit from it. kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature