From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68355 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Can I do this with the registry? Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:50:32 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237096330 15348 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2009 05:52:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:52:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16794@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Mar 15 06:53:26 2009 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 4.50) id 1LijHq-0002t3-F0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:53:26 +0100 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 1LijFP-0000PO-6s; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:50:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LijFN-0000P7-GM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LijFH-00058Y-P8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LijFe-0003BH-00 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:51:10 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LijFG-0006oa-NG for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:50:46 +0000 Original-Received: from m750f36d0.tmodns.net ([208.54.15.117]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:50:46 +0000 Original-Received: from dave by m750f36d0.tmodns.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:50:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: m750f36d0.tmodns.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OBg8D02x1Ku9pFSLpv/GU/3DR4A= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68355 Archived-At: I was just reading the documentation on the way-cool registry feature (thanks, Ted!) and my head started to explode. It *sounds* as though one might be easily able to use the Registry to accomplish something I've long wanted. It goes something like this: For various reasons, I need to delete messages from my INBOX when I'm done with them. Often someone will send me a reply and fail to quote important context, or I'll simply need to go back and review earlier messages in the thread. I keep a "history" folder that essentially accumulates everything that's passed through my email flow, so I have the messages, but to find them I have to do lots of navigation. Oh, and sometimes I don't "have" all the messages, but they're available on some NNTP group I subscribe to, because threads get "taken offline" (or the opposite). I'd really like a way to collect all the messages connected to a thread, no matter which groups the thread has passed through. Can the registry help with that, and if so, how? TIA, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com