From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/637 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: those who know me have no need of my name Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: LDAP support / configuration sharing ? Date: 12 Jun 2002 06:45:58 GMT Organization: earthfriends Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667588 7759 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:53 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!sn-xit-02!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (RC1), i686-redhat-linux) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:777 Original-Lines: 21 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 777 Tue Jan 17 17:27:53 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:637 Archived-At: in gnu.emacs.gnus i read: >Simon Josefsson writes: >> For HTTP? I think the user would need to find a HTTP server where she >> can write to, and then the application need to invent a protocol to >> use the HTTP server for solving the synchronization and lock >> mechanisms. It shouldn't be very impossible, should it? SyncML as a >> protocol could work, altough it is somewhat bloated. > >OK, so the user would have to set up some back end on the nearest http >server? more likely you'd use the the http put to upload the data, no `back-end' necessary. the structure would be as mandated by gnus, perhaps just storing and fetching the .newsrc.eld file, which shouldn't break gnus' guts, whereas trying to do something real-time and interactive would have to replace the gnus-newsrc-alist (et al) variables for functions that would perform i/o -- way more work. -- bringing you boring signatures for 17 years