From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6445 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using a Gnus for collaborative work & todo list mgmt? Date: 29 May 1996 23:13:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146899 3616 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:48:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA07825 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:19:48 -0700 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 23:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 29 May 1996 23:37:07 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of 29 May 1996 11:28:18 +0200 Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.3/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6445 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6445 Kai Grossjohann writes: > Now the main issue: what kind of backend could we use that > - allows read/write access > - doesn't cause too many problems with several people writing (I'm > not even concerned about locking, it's just that I'm unsure about > .overview files, for example -- what happens if somebody adds > something to the .overview file while I'm reading a group -- will > the new article just appear the next time I get new news?) For that reason alone I would suggest using nnmh -- one file per article, no active file, no .overview file to cause problems. I was thinking along similar lines a few weeks back for the gnus-bug group. I think server-side annotations could be used. For instance, all new messages to gnus-bug won't have any annotations. Then I could ask the nnml server for all articles in that group without any annotations. As I process the bug reports, I could add annotations like "fixed", "queried for more information", "not a bug", etc. Of course, we don't have annotations at all in Gnus yet, but I'll definitely be adding them for Red Gnus. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."