From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26041 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Holm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: address lists? Date: 26 Oct 1999 08:35:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <7zk8oak4t7.fsf@mispel.ii.uib.no> References: <87u2nhr8h3.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> <7z904rg34m.fsf@mispel.ii.uib.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163324 17342 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:22:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29425 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:35:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB22869; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:35:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:36:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA22333 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 01:35:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from ii.uib.no (eik.ii.uib.no [129.177.16.3]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29418 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:35:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mispel.ii.uib.no (mispel.ii.uib.no [129.177.192.67]) by ii.uib.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA08240; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:35:17 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from henrikh@localhost) by mispel.ii.uib.no (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.7) id IAA03027; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:35:16 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: "Jody M. Klymak" In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 54 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26041 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26041 On 25 Oct 1999 09:24:16 -0700, Jody M. Klymak wrote: > >>>>> "HH" == Henrik Holm writes: Hi Jody, > HH> [...] This provides > HH> the same functionality as having `mylist' specified in .mailrc > HH> as described above, but I do not need to maintain two lists. > > I use BBDB for most things, but not for lists. I am sorry, I did not make myself sufficiently clear... and I used the term `list' for two things, which is bad. I consider BBDB to be my `address list' -- and before I got to know BBDB, `.mailrc' was my address list. So that is why I was talking about `two lists'. > Is there an efficient way of making your list, or do you have to > search on each of john, paul, judy's names and enter the list entry > manually? The nice thing about the .mailrc is you simply type the > lists in right there. You're perfectly right, I do have to search on each of john, paul, judy's names (and maybe even entering them into the BBDB if they're not there, of course), and then C-o the field mail-alias containing the list name. This might be a bit more work than typing the list in the .mailrc. > It also makes them fairly easy to manage. I'm not sure what you mean > by "two lists" since I only use the .mailrc for lists. Here is where I confused you with my speaking of `two lists'. When john is in the .mailrc file in addition to the BBDB, I have to maintain his entry both places. That is, if john changes his email address, I have to change both .mailrc and BBDB. > HH> This might be an important issue: my .mailrc is empty, since > HH> I've moved all my addresses into the BBDB batabase. I don't > HH> know wether that is important, but it might be! > > Not for my set-up. I have both BBDB and .mailrc w/o any problems. That is good. There might be a problem if lists (and aliases) are implemented in both the BBDB and .mailrc, but since you don't utilise the mail-alias field in BBDB it is certainly not a problem. I hope I managed to explain better this time... it is certainly not my intention to criticise the .mailrc way of maintaining lists! Regards, Henrik -- Henrik Holm, Research fellow --- Dept. of Telecommunications, NTNU mailto:Henrik.Holm@tele.ntnu.no - http://www.tele.ntnu.no/users/henrik Currently visiting Dept. of Informatics, UiB