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- Subject: virtual newsgroups: implementation in gnus
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 02:18:44 GMT
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- here's what i think is necessary to implement virtual newsgroups in
- gnus.
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- a virtual newsgroup has a name and constituent newsgroups. "emacs"
- might be the name of a virtual group, and gnu.emacs.help,
- gnu.emacs.vm.bug, and gnu.emacs.gnus might be the constituents.
-
- put subject lines from the constituent newsgroups into the same
- subject buffer, disambiguating the article numbers.
-
- ensure that article and header retrieval use the disambiguator.
-
- make followups look at the newsgroups line to see what newsgroup to
- post to. if it's ambiguous, ask the user.
-
- make the default save file be the virtual newsgroup name. i have
- code for this part.
-
- make the kill file be the virtual newsgroup name.
-
- put the virtual newsgroup name in the newsgroups buffer just as if it
- were a real newsgroup.
-
- use an alist to provide correspondences between virtual newsgroups and
- their constituents.
-
- that's it!
- --
- i'm open to comparing research career notes with other young cogsci people.
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