From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40739 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matt Armstrong" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: possible strange idea about hierarchical lists Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:52:14 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d71tehj5.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176242 2502 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:57:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26526 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 16:52:49 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 16:52:49 -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 16BfHn-0006Js-00; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 10:52:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 05 Dec 2001 10:52:29 -0600 (CST) 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 KAA05235 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:52:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26522 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2001 16:52:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26517 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 16:52:22 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (sigsegv@64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 16:52:22 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5273AEE37 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:52:21 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6F9BE7E for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:52:20 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A17DBE7D; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:52:20 -0700 (MST) Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Mail-Followup-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:55:19 +0100") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.43/Python 2.1.1 (linux2) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40739 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> You are right. It's faster and easier (for implementer and user) to >> use a 2-level list. But is anyone except me interested in it? > > I think the feature is too cool to be comprehended easily. Just go > ahead and add it, and in ten years, when people have become wiser, > they will thank you for it :-) > > Or it's just me who is dimwitted and has problems seeing the > benefits... Anyhow, some thinking about it indicates a high > coolness factor. I don't happen to belong to any hierarchical groups, but if I did, I'd want the feature. ;-) --=20 matt