From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39246 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Major splitting problem ... Advice please Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:44:30 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878zegyfip.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174983 26858 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:36:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11199 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2001 16:47:02 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 2001 16:47:02 -0000 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 15s5RB-0007NI-00; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:45:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA10197 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:44:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 11070 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2001 16:45:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11065 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2001 16:45:02 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com (HELO defaultvalue.org) (postfix@209.87.109.2) by gnus.org with SMTP; 12 Oct 2001 16:45:02 -0000 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C721178; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:45:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A4769601; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:44:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:26:28 -0700") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39246 Harry Putnam writes: > To cut to the chase here, I'm thinking of splitting this up into > groups that contain one month/yr of a specific group. Hmm, I've been working on something similar off and on. I was only working on per-year splitting, and I hadn't yet decided what, if anything, I was going to try to do about breaking threads, but I was trying to write an elisp function using gnus calls to do the job because I wanted to preserve all my marks. > However, there are enough differnet date styles to make that kind of > split pretty hard to program. Also the problem of some messages > that came late to a thread, landing in a different group arises. > Keeping all thead members in one group may not even be possible, > except by hand. I'm not sure. Hmm. I had just been planning to use gnus date functions. I hadn't considered that those might not be sufficient. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD