From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80756 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problem with gnus-parameters Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:33:33 +0100 Message-ID: <877h17udki.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> References: <878vn0c9as.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <878vmziasx.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325662494 20846 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 07:34:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka , ding@gnus.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29038@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 04 08:34:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiLN3-0001fS-MN for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:34:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RiLM4-0008Hh-Fm; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:33:48 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RiLLz-0008HI-Hh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:33:43 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RiLLu-0005nq-P7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:33:43 -0600 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RiLLt-0003JI-1l; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:33:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509D3D2427; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:33:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PmHSjLW4ZK0A; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:33:35 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C8CDED2426; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:33:35 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:15:14 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80756 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Hi Lars, >> From user's perspective, the posting styles approach is extremely >> convenient, because I don't need to duplicate information. Now, to >> achieve what I want, I need to duplicate information five times that >> would be there implicitly with the iterative first-to-last posting >> style application approach. > > There's advantages to the "cumulative" approach, and there's > advantages to the "first match wins" approach, and Gnus has gone a bit > back and forth on what makes most sense in each case. > > Which is how we ended up in the present condition. :-) Yeah, right. Doing it cumulatively for posting styles, last-match-wins-ly for group parameters, but again cumulatively for group local parameters (both specified in `gnus-parameters') seems like a fine compromise then. We should consider forming a political party. ;-) I can live with the current situation. It's just that I think it's not obvious, and it's not documented. Bye, Tassilo