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- From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,news.software.readers
- Subject: Re: virtual newsgroups: implementation in gnus
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:36:29 GMT
- Organization: WNC
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- In article <KPC.92Dec24181925@zog.arc.nasa.gov> kpc@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov writes:
- >here's what i think is necessary to implement virtual newsgroups in
- >gnus.
-
- When I initially purposed vgr's about a year and half ago I ment to make a
- reader independant method of making the virtual article base and then leave it
- up to the reader on how to use that db.
-
- >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.
-
- This is a postive and a negative. A user may want to varei the set of
- member groups dynamically. For example the have a group called best_of which
- reads alt.best.of.usenet, but if I read an article in it, it will automatical
- expand the searchable articles to include the originating group.
-
- Also how will you handle large sets of groups such as alt.*.
-
- >make followups look at the newsgroups line to see what newsgroup to
- >post to. if it's ambiguous, ask the user.
-
- Basically good but the vgr portion of the system should learn what goes where
- pretty soon. An other possible solution is to get rid of newsgroups and use
- vgr's to make custom ones.
-
- >make the default save file be the virtual newsgroup name. i have
- >code for this part.
-
- Fair enough but this should be configurable, either savable to the vgr name or
- to the newgroup line setting.
-
- >make the kill file be the virtual newsgroup name.
-
- vgr's are the opposit of kill files so I don't see how this one works. Maybe
- what you call a vgr is very different then what I call them I define a vgr
- as being a way to select what you want to see not get rid of things you don't
- want to see you do this by a set of rules.
-
- >put the virtual newsgroup name in the newsgroups buffer just as if it
- >were a real newsgroup.
-
- This might lead to confusion but it does make the most sense interms of smooth
- integration into the existing struct.
-
- >use an alist to provide correspondences between virtual newsgroups and
- >their constituents.
-
- The rules should specify this yes but the user should be able to fine tone it
- in real time.
- --
- Aryeh Friedman,Co-Pre&CTO,WorldNet Communications,P.O.26785,Tempe,AZ,85285-6785.
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- Though it does at times try to speak for me.E-mail:aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu
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