Re: More on the annotation format

[John Prevost <prevost@maya.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I've all along been thinking about editing and annotation as something
> I do for me, not something that will affect other users of the server.

I'd think this is the more usual case as well, but I believe I saw
someone else complain that some proposed solution wouldn't work for
other people reading the folder.

  {...}
> Ie. if I reparent/rethread a news article in a read-only folder, only
> I would see the change.  Ie. only user.prevost.annotations and
> user.kapoor.annotations would exist on the server in your example.
  {...}
> That said, I don't often see the need for editing news messages, and
> I've resigned to the fact that nntp is a read-only back-end so maybe I 
> could be resigned to the fact that nnimap is one as well... 
  {...}

I think it's unreasonable to say that.  In this context, it's probably
most reasonable to go with the model of one annotation message per
folder, in some folder of the user's choosing.

And if somebody wants to implement it, being able to use others'
annotations too might be cool, but the general model would be "one
folder to one writer".

Then the only worry is competing Gnus sessions.  :(

John.