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Subject: Re: nnhtml type backends -- idea
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:
>=20
> > WIBNI there was a central server (www.gnus.org would be an obvious
> > choice) which offered a couple of files containing the parsing rule=
s?
>=20
> That would be nice, but wouldn't the parsing rules really have to be
> elisp code?  And do you really want to download possibly harmful code
> automatically?=20

Maybe it is possible to do without Lisp.  And even if it isn't,
splitting out the parsing rules into something separate from Gnus so
that people can easily update the parsing rules might be a nifty
thing.  OTOH, one could just require them to update Gnus.  Hm.

kai
--=20
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