sorting and threading off-line!

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2 total messages Started by k p c Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:35

#612

Author: k p c
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:35

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you know how you can process kill files off-line with gnus-batch-kill?

here's an extension of that idea:

sort and thread all subscribed newsgroups every day at midnight or
whenever with a cron job, saving the article lists to a file.  then
when you read, simply read in the article lists and merge in articles
that have arrived since midnight.

voila.  has anybody done this?  any comments?  does it sound like a
good idea?  any of the current maintainers thought of it?

(hint: besides speeding things up considerably, it would allow really
complex, interesting, normally very slow sorting to be done every
night.)
-- 
i'm open to comparing research career notes with other cogsci/cogneuro people.

Re: sorting and threading off-line!

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Author: Scott Ballantyne
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:44

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In article <KPC.93Jan22233516@zog.arc.nasa.gov> kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c) writes:

   sort and thread all subscribed newsgroups every day at midnight or
   whenever with a cron job, saving the article lists to a file.  then
   when you read, simply read in the article lists and merge in articles
   that have arrived since midnight.

That's what mthreads does (although not for gnus).  One of the
happiest days in my life was when I was able to type

	rm mthreads

thanks to Mr. Collyer and his nov database.  There aren't enough
cycles or disk space on the planet to handle this task.

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