From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23674 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Soren Dayton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposal/Request for feature for splitting to FQ groups Date: 02 Jul 1999 18:43:37 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86u2ro9kk7.fsf@kramer.bp.aventail.com> Reply-To: csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161363 3263 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:49:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15516 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:45:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB12117; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:44:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Jul 1999 18:45:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01852 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:45:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from alexandria.cs.uchicago.edu (alexandria.cs.uchicago.edu [128.135.11.87]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15478 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:43:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sloohah.cs.uchicago.edu (sloohah.cs.uchicago.edu [128.135.11.60]) by alexandria.cs.uchicago.edu (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26233; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:43:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sloohah.cs.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 3442) id A7C2E21; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:43:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: wmperry@aventail.com In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "01 Jul 1999 15:33:44 -0500" Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23674 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23674 wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes: > Soren Dayton writes: > > > So I was playing with splitting again (this is a hobby of mine) and I > > would really like to be able to split from my nnml backend into an nnimap > > mailbox. This would be really, really nice for me. > > Ooooh oooh me too! > > Please please please?!?!?! :) > > I volunteer lots of beer if this gets into pgnus before it gets a 'real' > number and we don't add any more features. 'GCC' can do this kind of > thing, so why not the splitting code? :) So, I've thought about it some more, and there may be good reasons `why not the splitting code'. I don't see a good failure behavior. What happens if the method cannot be brought up (it is on a down file server, the imap server isn't up, I just deleted the directory that stores the messages for that method, etc.). For Gcc, it's easy because it's the user's problem. Gnus beeps at me, and I go fix it or change it or whatever. But if I've been on vacation for a month, I start up gnus, and go take a shower (after all, bbdb splitting ain't fast) and it starts splitting. And my imap server (which I am splitting messages into) is down. I'm screwed. Stick it somewhere where I have to split 500 messages by hand? Not me. Stick it in the crash box? Eep. What would the right behavior be here? Soren