FEATURE: Smart Folders? [WAS: Re: [Evolution] FEATURE: Mailing List Folders?]

[Jim Meyer <purp wildbrain com>]

Howdy!

Realize that I still like the very short term solution of imitating
Galeon's Smart Bookmarks feature at a folder level; for discussion let's
call the feature Smart Folders. 

If you search a Smart Folder, it behaves normally. If you click the
"Smart Search" button as well, two things happen:
  * your search is done on the local folder
  * an open-URI message is passed to the Gnome default browser 
    with the Smart Folder URI; this opens a browser page with
    the results of your search executed on the web-based archive

Now to the long-term:

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:56, Not Zed wrote:
> But NNTP isn't usenet, its just used by it.
>
> Various groupware servers use nntp or something like it for 'group
> discussions' still.
>
> I think trying to wrap some web archive or something else in something
> not nntp is just unwise.

I'm willing to agree, but I have a question: mailing list archives are
usually in mbox format; is NNTP able to deal with that, or will there
have to be some conversion or shift? 

If it's the latter, then NNTP will likely be the kiss of death on this
as it's grossly inconvenient to the maintainers of the mailing lists and
to their users who currently download the list archives for their mail
clients' use. At which point the idea of an anonymous read-only IMAP
server becomes interesting after all.

But that's just my $0.02.

--j
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Jim Meyer, Geek At Large                              purp wildbrain com