From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70535 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:25:24 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: <87k4n0f6gr.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283707822 32264 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2010 17:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 17:30:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18909@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 05 19:30:21 2010 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 1OsJ2q-0006YT-Sa for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:30:21 +0200 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 1OsJ2m-0004cO-4M; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:30:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsJ2k-0004c9-TZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OsJ2g-0003D6-Mn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OsJ2f-0002yO-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:30:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsJ2c-0006Rw-1C for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: from zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.69.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:30:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70535 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Greg Troxel writes: > >> I'm not a raving fan of procmail, but it's good enough and basically I >> add a new rule for every mailinglist. I have 1200 lines (wc -l) between >> two accounts, which is more or less 300 commented rules. > > Wow. :-) > > But I can't imagine that's how most non-techie users do it... On the > other hand, most Gnus users are pretty techie, so... Non-Techie users use some web front-end. In my university people use Squirrelmail to define mail splitting rules. With gmail, you use the Gmail filters etc. -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.