From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87690 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: create a message, have it in the holster? Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:53:36 -0700 Message-ID: <87o9pxpfjj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <86h8vr41te.fsf@zoho.com> <87o9pyeqkf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bmlx1pcn.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506444913 24984 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 16:55:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:55:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.60 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35904@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 26 18:55:08 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 1dwt8V-0005y5-3a for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:55:07 +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 69dbcedb-a2db-11e7-86ce-b499baabecb2; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:54:51 +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 1dwt7O-0000DX-Nz; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dwt7M-0000Cz-74 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:53:56 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1dwt7K-00055N-Ma for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:53:56 -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 1dwt7I-0005lQ-VV for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:53:53 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwt74-0000Oh-0Y for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:53:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:S2dokxdBZnVaauFcFe9yJ1Soznw= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87690 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > 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) Well, sure -- I guess I wasn't really proposing that we delete the group, it just seems like both lists are low-traffic enough that we wouldn't really need two. > 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 guess it would be less confusing if they were called "user" and "devel". Anyway, it's certainly no big deal to have two. > 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. That's kind of you, but I don't know how to answer half of the questions that get posted here! Eric