From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81409 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I can haz cloud idea Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:25:24 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87fwebnzd8.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329384393 29648 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2012 09:26:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:26:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29689@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 16 10:26:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RxxbZ-0001hs-Il for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:26:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxxb1-0006Zc-F6; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:25:47 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxxb0-0006ZO-9S for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:25:46 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxxav-0000ko-Qc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:25:45 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxxat-0007gM-Q4 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:25:39 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxxat-000193-KD for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:25:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:25:39 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:25:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VmANvFpcEM77bltSNuiIxEwPsQw= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81409 Archived-At: >>>>> David Engster : > I think it's a good idea, but I'd like it even more if this could be > somehow hooked into some existing framework for storing data remotely, > and that framework in Emacs is Tramp. The first version of gnus-sync used tramp, and I used an SSH URL with tramp to do the syncing. Tramp was slooooow. The current gnus-sync, which uses an HTTP RESTful protocol (the CouchDB protocol), is lightning fast in comparison. > Ted coded IMAP support for Tramp a while ago, but it was removed again > for reasons I don't know. I think it was because it had many issues and few users...?