Re: OffGnus

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

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

>> How does it "know" that the connection has come up? 
LMI> The user says so.  This is what Agent does -- the user taps `C-o'
LMI> to let Agent know that it's online.

How about `M-o' instead?  `C-o' is already bound in the summary buffer.

>> I think I like "nnagent" as a name.
LMI> And they probably won't sue me.  :-)

We can hope :).

[...]

LMI> Yes -- I'll probably take much code from nnml and gnus-cache, but
LMI> since the requirements are somewhat different (for instance, it should
LMI> be possible to heed Supersedes), the code probably can't be shared
LMI> directly.

Won't Supersedes be superseded on the news server?  In essence, a
majority of the nntp code in agent will be in duplicating what is on the
server.

Or do you mean superseding in the local spool area?

LMI> To make it efficient, it's a possibility that I'll have to use some
LMI> sort of external (or internal) data base system or something...

When an article is "posted" it gets put into the local spool where it
should go, and the message ID, group, and article number are stored in
the .../out.going/<target-server> database.  When a spool out connection
to a particular server goes live, nnagent can run through that server's
outgoing database on a line-by-line basis and upload the corresponding
articles.  Just like a real news server (and Agent, for that matter).

As for the equivalent of a history database, it has already been
partially implemented in nnml in the .nnmail-cache mechanism.

Wow... Gnus, the news reader that is also a news server.

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