From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87689 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: create a message, have it in the holster? Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:55:36 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87bmlx1pcn.fsf@local.lan> References: <86h8vr41te.fsf@zoho.com> <87o9pyeqkf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506437881 7989 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 14:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:58:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35903@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 26 16:57:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.35]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrJ3-0001Y6-Eg for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:57:53 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 0f0bf09d-a2cb-11e7-86ce-b499baabecb2; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrHk-0007iy-DB; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrHg-0007iF-EI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:56:28 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrHe-0006f1-IY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:56:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrHc-00045F-NL for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:56:24 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrHJ-0003Sz-MU for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:56:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uao7VzhTIlUYpV2OfmcnGucpG3g= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87689 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: [...] Emanual B wrote: >> PS. Is this a question for >> gmane.emacs.gnus.general or >> gmane.emacs.gnus.user ? > Eric A wrote > PS I don't know that there's any difference between the two lists at > this point, and kind of think it would be better for > gmane.emacs.gnus.user to go away. Repectfully wish to disagree with this. I (for one) continue to use gmane.emacs.gnus.user in this way: I sometimes have questions about common functioning of gnus, perhaps things I once knew but forgot and having a time finding in manual. (and that might be pretty common amongst the 70+ yrs gang I belong to) Or just things I never had occasion to use until now, but that I know are long time abilities. I suppose it could be argued that those very things may well have changed in more recent versions and therefore more appropriate to gmane.emacs.gnus.general but as a long time user I think I have some fairly good notions about what is old stuff or not. I suspect there are more than a few others who feel they know the difference and know when to post to which group. In fact I would have guessed that Emanual B, would have been one of those. Plus there is always the process of posting to ...user and if no answer comes in a few days, move it to ...general. I suppose this is quite subjective, but still, I suspect what I say above is pretty close to true. One other point is that it would be a waste of talent to tie up people like Eric A with mundane questions that can be answered by other old hands.