From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17142 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward J. Sabol" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mh backend Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:43:52 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199809152243.SAA25225@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155897 31844 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:18:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA16190 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:45:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAF00523; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:44:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12691 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:44:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.127.237]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA16126 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:43:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI.AUTO) id SAA25225; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:43:52 -0400 Original-To: Gnus Mailing List In-reply-to: (message from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= on 15 Sep 1998 17:53:21 -400) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17142 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17142 Excerpts from mail: (15-Sep-98) Re: mh backend by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois Pinard?= >>>> 1. Message sequences. >> In MH/nmh, you can give symbolic names to an arbitrary list of >> numbers. Then you can manipulate the messages that these numbers >> represent, by using the message sequence. [...] This sounds a lot like RMAIL labels. I know that, at one point, adding user-customizable labels or annotations to Gnus was on the to-do list, but it's probably way down on the list. > Could mailgroups, or submailgroups, be used to similar purposes? Maybe not, > if a single message may be part of many sequences simultaneously. Let's > assume for a moment it would be possible... Someone invariably suggests that when the topic of Gnus labels comes up. Personally, I think subgroups are a very poor alternative. >> Well, it's common to repack the folder in the MH/nmh world. The message >> numbers are not hidden in the background quite as much as in Gnus. > > Maybe (just hypothesising :-) because you often need to look at these > numbers. If you stopped having this need, probably the need to repack > would disappear as well? I think it would be great if Gnus could count articles correctly. However, someone may have already written a function to pack an nnml group. See the the following articles on the Gnus mailing list archive: >> Yes, limiting takes care of matching on headers, but unless I'm >> missing something obvious, one cannot limit based on the contents >> message body. > For one, I do it with temporary scoring instead. Maybe it would be > convenient that have a limiting function for that as well? It might be > slow. I really think limiting on the body should be added as feature. (If it's not already. I could have sworn it was!) It would be really useful, I think. Later, Ed