Re: gnus-ignored-from-addresses

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka writes:
>> Peter Münster wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 25 2013, Reiner Steib wrote:
>>>> Please make the old behavior the default again.  You can add an option
>>>> to match only addresses or surround addresses with <...> to get the
>>>> new behavior.
>>
>>> +1
>>
>> ±0
>>
>> But it might be good to *always* surround a string with \<...\>
>> under the `standard-syntax-table'.  I can only imagine that it
>> will help a FB employee whose name is "Mark Zucker", though.
>> OTOH, the current way is absolutely safe since an email address
>> is absolutely unique.  Even if it is hard to beginners to design
>> a regexp, it can be a start of learning Emacs.

> I'd agree if this were a new feature. But this change needlessly breaks
> people's configurations, so I agree with Reiner that it should be
> reverted. That the variable mentions 'addresses' might be unfortunate,
> but it's a quirk we should live with.

Ah, I agree.  Julien?