Re: gnus-registry-split-fancy-with-parent misfeature or minibug?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> Use the gnus-registry-ignored-groups variable or the
>> registry-ignore group parameter.  I have:
>>
>> (setq gnus-registry-ignored-groups '(("nntp" t) 
>>                                      ("nnrss" t)))
>>
>> That way, messages in those groups won't be registered.
>> What would be a suitable default, any suggestions?
> 
> I'm not so happy with this approach.  I read an IMAP server via
> nnimap and a POP server via mail-sources and nnml.  So suppose I
> read a message on the IMAP server and move it to nnimap:INBOX.foo,
> then I compose a followup.  The followup happens to contain the
> "wrong" email message, and so replies go to the POP mailbox.  So
> nnmail-split-fancy will put the reply into nnml:INBOX.foo which
> isn't what I wanted.

> If you say that this is a rather unusual setup, I'd agree.  So maybe
> that's not so convincing an argument.  (Especially the part about
> the "wrong" email address which leads to parts of the same thread
> coming in via IMAP whereas other parts come in via POP.)

I think fully qualified group names would help you here.  Most people,
I assumed, would not get a followup to a message in a backend
different from the one where message is stored.  I'll get the FQGN
addition to the gnus-registry.el done as time permits - feel free to
put it in sooner.  I'm still thinking of a faster storage format...

> But there is another thing: I gather that originally you intended to
> use the registry for other things, not just
> gnus-registry-split-fancy-with-parent?  If this is the case, then
> there might be a good reason for registering nntp articles, as well.

Only one other purpose on my horizon: spam processing.  I can see the
problems there - maybe at that point the registry will *remember*
group names in the gnus-registry-ignored-groups alist, but won't offer
them as suggestions for splitting with the parents.  I think that's
the sensible way to do it.

Ted