* Should Message-Ids become first-class Gnus objects?
@ 1996-09-26 23:51 Raja R Harinath
1996-09-27 17:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Raja R Harinath @ 1996-09-26 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
I had a few thoughts about the role of message-ids inside Gnus.
There are many lists of Message-Ids that duplicate information. For
eg., `gnus-dup' maintains a list and an obarray of message-ids already
seen. `gnus-gl' maintains a list of message-ids rated. All these are
separate obarrays, and duplicate the message-id string.
I wonder if using a single message-id hashtb with the other facilities
being implemented as property get/sets will be a better alternative.
This would require a major rearchitecting of Gnus.
Things like the following could be done:
Property Value Meaning/Use
-------- ----- -----------
:seen (next . prev) The message has been seen. The next
and prev form a doubly-linked list of
symbols in the order seen. This can be
used by `gnus-dup'. No need to store
`gnus-dup-list' and `gnus-dup-hashtb'.
:refs-to (r1 r2 ...) The References: header
:has-refs-from (c1 c2 ...) Inverse of the References: header.
To store list of articles that refer to
this message-id. Can be used to find
list of replies to an article, for one.
(this is on the Gnus todo list)
:where ((ng1 . art1) This can be used to list what groups
(ng2 . art2) this message occurs in. The Xref:
...) header + local copies. Used with the
prev two properties, can be used to
follow threads across newsgroups.
:gl-prediction (score l . h) This can be used to store predictions
obtained from the GroupLens BBB
:gl-rating (score . time) This can be used for storing user
GroupLens ratings
Using the dup-list maintenance as an example:
gnus-dup-enter-articles would do in a loop
(put (setq cur (intern "msg-id" gnus-msg-id-hashtb)) :seen (prev . nil))
(setcdr (get prev :seen) cur) ; ?? is a put reqd or is this ok
(setq prev cur)
gnus-dup-drop would do
(setq links (get cur :seen))
(setq prev (car links)
next (cdr links))
(setcdr (get prev :seen) next)
(setcar (get next :seen) prev)
(put cur :seen nil)
and gnus-dup-save would do
... skip (total-seen - gnus-dup-list-lgth) messages ...
(while (setq cur (cdr (get cur :seen)))
(insert (symbol-name cur)))
Your comments ...
- Hari
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* Re: Should Message-Ids become first-class Gnus objects?
1996-09-26 23:51 Should Message-Ids become first-class Gnus objects? Raja R Harinath
@ 1996-09-27 17:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1996-09-27 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:
> There are many lists of Message-Ids that duplicate information. For
> eg., `gnus-dup' maintains a list and an obarray of message-ids already
> seen. `gnus-gl' maintains a list of message-ids rated. All these are
> separate obarrays, and duplicate the message-id string.
>
> I wonder if using a single message-id hashtb with the other facilities
> being implemented as property get/sets will be a better alternative.
> This would require a major rearchitecting of Gnus.
Well, all the different functions use a different subset of
Message-IDs, and the Message-IDs live for a shorter or longer time. I
think trying to make One Unified Message-ID thingie could be quite
difficult.
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larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
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