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- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
- Path: sparky!uunet!hotmomma!sdb
- From: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
- Subject: Re: sorting and threading off-line!
- In-Reply-To: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov's message of 23 Jan 93 02:35:16 EST
- Message-ID: <C1DIuq.B2s@ssr.com>
- Lines: 14
- Sender: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
- Organization: ScotSoft Research
- References: <KPC.93Jan22233516@zog.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:44:49 GMT
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- In article <KPC.93Jan22233516@zog.arc.nasa.gov> kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c) writes:
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- 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.
-