On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> writes: >> If there even is an Emacs mode to work with Gmane, then I wonder: >> Wouldn't the possibility to read and write the Sage-related groups be >> an ideal addition to the Sage notebook? The html editor in the Sage >> notebook certainly works better than what I have experienced with the >> new google groups yesterday. > > Gnus is not an Emacs mode to work with Gmane - it's a newsreader, which > uses the NNTP protocol to communicate with newsgroups_. Gmane is a > service which archives mailing lists and then presents an NNTP interface > to them which imitates a newsgroup. Thus you can read "articles" and > send "followup articles" back to the newsgroup, which is the newsgroups > analogue of what in mailing lists is called reading "emails" and sending > "replies", and Gmane translates between the former and the latter > transparently. > > Actually both email and newsgroup articles use the same file format - > plaintext, starts with several lines of the form "Header-Name: header > value", ends with (mostly) freeform lines called the "body", into which > you can encode non-plaintext data using Multipurpose Internet Mail > Extensions (MIME). So the analogy between newsgroups and mailing lists > is not very forced. > > Mailing lists are basically just newsgroups in which every article is > forcibly sent to all "subscribers", rather than having a centralized > NNTP server to which people can connect and read articles of their > choosing. Gmane corrects this deficiency :) Then again, some would say > so does Google Groups, in a different, more "modern" way (with an AJAXy > centralized web interface). > > Anyway, reimplementing such functionality in the Sage notebook would be > highly nontrivial, at least the reading part. If you just want an email > *sender*, then you already have that - type "email?" in a Sage prompt > (or the notebook).
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