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Re: searching Gmane questions
From: |
Adam Sjøgren |
Subject: |
Re: searching Gmane questions |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:05:17 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
myglc2@gmail.com writes:
> Is there any reason to believe that gmane search will start working
> again?
One can always hope, but it is kind of dwindling.
> Am I correct in believing that gmane was unique amount NNTP servers in
> providing a search interface, and that the interface between gnus and
> gmane was a custom thing?
It is certainly custom, several others are implemented, but I don't know
if they are of any use any more:
· http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/gnus/nnweb.el#n45
> Or is there a standard way to search NNTP servers that I am missing?
There was at least one proposal, I don't know if it was ever
implemented anywhere:
· https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ballou-nntpsrch-04
Best regards,
Adam
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