From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39569 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Generating Mail-Followup-To: headers Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:58:25 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wv1p24i6.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <87y9m9fs6b.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87elo1exsd.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87u1wvkaiv.fsf@mclinux.com> <87zo6nftt7.fsf@mclinux.com> <87u1wvftms.fsf@mclinux.com> <87adyngzv4.fsf@mclinux.com> <87adynmk0c.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175261 28688 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13290 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2001 01:00:50 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 21 Oct 2001 01:00:50 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15v6xE-0002r0-00; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:58:42 -0500 (CDT) 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 TAA23758 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:58:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13260 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2001 00:58:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13255 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2001 00:58:44 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 21 Oct 2001 00:58:44 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8284DEE30; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:58:28 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096E1BD4E; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:58:27 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D966BD35; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:58:25 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: (Per Abrahamsen's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:41:25 +0200") Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39569 Per Abrahamsen writes: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > >> Matt Armstrong wrote: >> >>> Even if I could I won't like having to explicitly escape all the '.' >>> and other characters in the list addresses. >> >> Do you know about regexp-quote? > > It doesn't help when setting the variable though customize, which is > the most likely case for a user uncomfortable with regexps. The customize argument is a good point. >>> I suppose in a contrived example, you could specify >>> "topic-.*@list\\.example\\.com" to get topic-devel, topic-user, >>> etc. but these cases are rare and people can just explicitly list all >>> of them. >> >> I don't think they're very rare. But they are certainly finite, so >> specifying them individually could still work. > > I think they are uncommon enough that even for the experienced user, > listing them all explicitly would be easier It would not hurt to have one variable for a list of addresses and one variable that is a list of regexp. This satisfies experts without burdening newbies. Not that any emacs newbie would ever be successful at using Gnus without serious effort. ;-) -- matt