virtual newsgroups: implementation in gnus

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From: k p c
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02:18

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here's what i think is necessary to implement virtual newsgroups in
gnus.

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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