From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46802 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Garbers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Offline mail and group cooperation Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:05:12 +0200 Organization: Road to Nowhere Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <878z1smmjp.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87vg4s5ezg.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033148039 17327 127.0.0.1 (27 Sep 2002 17:33:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17uz01-0004VK-00 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17uyxi-0004NH-00; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:31:34 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:32:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA19937 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:32:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 26191 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2002 17:31:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26186 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 17:31:14 -0000 Original-Received: from uucp.gnuu.de (151.189.0.84) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 17:31:14 -0000 Original-Received: from gabsi.gnuu.de (uucp@localhost) by uucp.gnuu.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with bsmtp id g8RHVCL97028 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:31:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 11946 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 17:05:12 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO edoras.localhost) (gabsi@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 17:05:12 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:24:29 +0200") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46802 * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann): >> If IMAP or nntp requires connecting too frequently, consider uucp to >> handle the disconnected thing. You can configure it to use ssh >> as well: >> >> http://perso.linuxfr.org/penso/article/uucp+ssh.html#toc6 >> http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/uucp-over-ssh/ >> >> uucp is attractive for composing email while disconnected.=20=20 >=20 > Hm. As I understand, UUCP is just a mechanism to transport mail and > news to/from my machine. So, functionality-wise, there is no > difference between invoking UUCP to fetch news and mail, and invoking > fetchnews (from leafnode) and fetchmail (from ESR) to fetch news and > mail. Correct. It is a protocol to copy files between unix systems. Christoph