From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14601 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group? Date: 15 Mar 1998 22:24:21 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153765 17119 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07118 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:31:12 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA14132 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:25:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAN16976; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 16:00:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:24:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA09139 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:24:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20990 invoked by uid 504); 15 Mar 1998 21:24:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20987 invoked from network); 15 Mar 1998 21:24:36 -0000 Original-Received: from pat.uio.no (6089@129.240.130.16) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 1998 21:24:35 -0000 Original-Received: from bombur2.uio.no (actually bombur2.uio.no [129.240.200.72]) by pat.uio.no with SMTP (PP); Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:24:22 +0100 Original-Received: by bombur2.uio.no ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:24:21 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: 's message of "15 Mar 1998 22:50:35 +0200" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14601 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14601 Jari Aalto writes: > I still think it would be nice if there we gnus-show-dormants that > I could put to my private mail groups Group parameter list to > show dormants immediately.. If you want them to be shown immediatly, why mark them as dormant? > How do people currently deal with messages that can be classified > as "answer within 4 days or else...boom" I just answered how I do it in Gnus. Other answers: Xcalendar. Diary. Xalarm. Save them to a TODO mail folder. The idea is to use the right tool for the job instead of desperatly trying to use a feature which is supposed to be used for almost the inverse situation. -- Hallvard