Re: OffGnus

[Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com>]

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>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

LMI> I think all outgoing news and mail should be stored in a special
LMI> folder, and that the offline backend should run the queue when the
LMI> connection has come up.  

How does it "know" that the connection has come up?  And then, how does
it know that the connection that has come up will allow sending out the
queued mail and news?  Trying to open a connection to a news server that
cannot be reached can cause Emacs to freeze for several minutes (I have
experienced this phenomenon on several occasions).  Some kind of user
intervention is probably the best way to do it.

I think I like "nnagent" as a name.

And I still think that the backend should borrow heavilly from nnml.
The news spool format is the most effective method of storing news -- it
is somewhat wasteful in disk space (depends on how big your inodes or
clusters are), but is faster for reading and requires much less memory
to process.  nnml duplicates this format, so you might as well use that
code for something.

This leaves nnagent with the task of playing traffic cop between nntp --
which talks to the news server -- and nnml -- which talks to the local
spool.

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