From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51287 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Documentation for expiry target in group customize Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 12:55:51 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nof3f8vag.fsf@holmes.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <843ckul6wm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84y92ls3gw.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049907559 30109 80.91.224.249 (9 Apr 2003 16:59:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Wed Apr 09 18:59:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193IuB-0007mr-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 18:58:37 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 193Is3-0003C5-00; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:57:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [64.157.176.121]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA08552 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:57:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 30064 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2003 16:55:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30059 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2003 16:55:55 -0000 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (134.174.9.41) by gnus.org with SMTP; 9 Apr 2003 16:55:55 -0000 Original-Received: from holmes.bwh.harvard.edu (holmes [134.174.9.102]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h39GtpI14528; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:55:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by holmes.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id h39Gtpi15849; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:55:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Mike Woolley X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: Mike Woolley , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Mike Woolley's message of "Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:09:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51287 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51287 On Tue, 08 Apr 2003, mike@ariel.co.uk wrote: > "which see" makes no sense in English :-) Agreed, I don't like that construct. > English Dictionaries /et al/ use "q.v.", as Jesper indicates... What's wrong with omitting that whole expression? It's redundant and unnecesarily repetitive. "Overrides `nnmail-expiry-target'." As long as `nnmail-expiry-target' can be followed as a link in some way (click in a X window, hit a key in a terminal) to its explanation, there's no need for extraneous language there. In fact, such language serves no purpose other than being confusing, since users today are familiar with the concept of reference links. Ted