From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus + emacs.stackexchange Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 00:39:22 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <876184j9lx.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87fv7hoxnd.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mw1luz3o.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87a8xjpxdh.fsf@gmail.com> <87h9rr56ap.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431038122 22827 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2015 22:35:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 22:35:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 00:35:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YqUO0-0006CY-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 00:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqUNz-0007rL-Gr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2015 18:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 66 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0nOxFbNw1dOsE1eCQayuCpJlxfQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211997 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104281 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: >> Couldn't one post there anonymously at some point? >> Perhaps they removed that possibility. > > I'm not sure, but if one could then they've > definitely removed it. I think it is a bit illogical there are accounts on the SX sites and yet everyone is encouraged to edit posts, including those that aren't written by the editor. On Wikipedia the whole idea is anyone can edit, and the result of the collective effort will prevail in the end (is the assumption). But it doesn't say who wrote what with an assigned reputation to go with it, which would seem to run contrary to that principle (?). But if it works I suppose it doesn't matter what is logical or not. Personally I like no one to edit what I write and if I make a mistake (it has been known to happen) I'm confident someone will point it out, which is the way I like it. As for reputation that should be implied. During the Russian civil war the Reds didn't have any signs to tell who was the commander in each squad, but still everyone knew who was the boss. It's usually not that difficult to tell. But again (explicit) reputation is a way of making it a competition and it seems to inspire people to produce material, so tho I personally am opposed to that for several reasons I'm not blind to see that it seems to work for them and to some extent to me, as I often Google error messages and the like and find the answer on one of them sites. >> sx.el is worth a try no doubt but it would be even >> better with a Gnus extention as it is the universal >> tool for tech communication (mail, listbots, >> newsgroups, RSS, and more) and people including >> yours truly have taken its equally uniform >> interface to their hearts or rather fingertips. > > I'd like to that eventually. Though I've used gnus > before, I don't think any of the sx.el developers > are deep into gnus. No :) It seems they have gotten quite far with sx.el, but to do it with Gnus would be better for many reasons, and one would be to be able to use all the stuff that has been there for ages (the message-mode I'm using right now, for example). But reinventing the wheel is not necessarily a bad thing. The most important thing is that you are able to use it with Emacs with the same finger-habits and configs you are used to. Be it Gnus or sx.el is secondary. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573