From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5597 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Red Gnus: Posted & e-mailed detection Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:30:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <199603191530.HAA10695@cyclone.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146178 818 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:36:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA26087 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:41:03 -0800 Original-Received: from maud.ifi.uio.no (0@maud.ifi.uio.no [129.240.74.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:32:07 +0100 Original-Received: from cyclone.Stanford.EDU (cyclone.Stanford.EDU [36.21.0.221]) by maud.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:32:04 +0100 Original-Received: (from eagle@localhost) by cyclone.Stanford.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.5) id HAA10695; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:30:29 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5597 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5597 (Forgive me if this has already been suggested; I haven't been paying extremely close attention to the various proposed features.) I highly dislike getting copies of posts via e-mail when they aren't marked as such in any standard fashion, but an ever-growing number of people seen determined to keep doing that. As such, it would be nice if Gnus could detect such messages and tell me about them. It occurred to me today that one way to do that which would work for any newsreader that generated its own message IDs (so that the ID for the mailed and posted copies would be identical) would be to just send an XPATH request to the news server for each mail message, or perhaps for each mail message in certain mail groups (I wouldn't have to check all the mailing list traffic that I get, but I'd like to check each personal message). If it returns something, then the message was also posted. It could also just be a new function, so people would have to explicitly check. That would probably be the best way of doing it. This assumes that the message has already shown up on your news server by the time you read the mail message, so it's not quite ideal, but it's an idea anyway, and for those of us with fast news feeds, it would be reasonably effective. If you already have a server connection open, it should be fairly fast as well. Anyway, I thought I'd throw out the idea and see what people have to say about it. -- Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu)