From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24206 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances Date: 13 Jul 1999 00:22:15 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87hfn93z08.fsf@raven.localnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161812 7429 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:56:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA23826 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:22:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB20510; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:22:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:23:29 -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 AAA28542 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:23:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from cs2868-35.austin.rr.com (mail@cs2868-35.austin.rr.com [24.28.68.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA23805 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:22:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from raven.localnet ([192.168.1.7] ident=mail) by cs2868-35.austin.rr.com with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian)) for ding@gnus.org id 113v4V-0002fr-00; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rlb by raven.localnet with local (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian)) for ding@gnus.org id 113v1D-00044N-00; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:22:15 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "04 Jul 1999 18:58:17 +0200" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24206 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24206 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes: > I think that a function which is like gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read > except that it ticks articles rather than marking them as read is > useful for mail groups, and will go a long way to making Gnus behave > like traditional mail readers. (Err, you also need to put this > function in gnus-mark-article-hook, of course.) Would ticking or making them dormant be a better default if you're going to do this? I'd guess the latter since I'd imagine that the user wouldn't expect read articles to show up in the summary buffer next time unless explicitly requested. Perhaps I'm not familiar enough with what other MUAs do... -- Rob Browning PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930