From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21456 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "William M. Perry" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Manage todo items with Gnus Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:03:00 -0500 Organization: Aventail, Corp. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <36D2A704.C4D61E47@aventail.com> References: <86aeygk4dv.fsf@slowfox.frob.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159556 23042 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:19:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08653 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:04:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB03122; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:03:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:04:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA09685 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:03:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from slow.bp.aventail.com (usrpri2-52.kiva.net [206.97.75.117]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08645 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:03:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from aventail.com (kramer.bp.aventail.com [192.168.2.2]) by slow.bp.aventail.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12953; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:01:46 -0800 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21456 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21456 You could use automatic expiry so you never feel too far behind in your todo list! I like it! You could also do less useful things, like eventually honor outlook schedule requests from within gnus or something like that. -bp François Pinard wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: > > > It would be great if to-do were not a gnus back-end, just a minor > > mode that could be plugged onto any other e-mail back-ends. This would > > obviate the need for managing mbox files, avoinding gettign new mail, etc. > > I.e., it would only have to manage priorities. > > I'm not sure of what the idea behind the description above. > > For TODO files, I just use `allout' mode, and like it very much. It is > exactly what I need. Isn't Gnus something quite complex, just to manage > a TODO list? What would be the incentive? > > -- > François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca > Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard