From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23809 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances Date: 05 Jul 1999 05:13:29 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161476 4050 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02204 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:28:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB00217; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:25:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jul 1999 22:25:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28862 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:25:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02123 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:24:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA06352; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 05:35:49 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Maureen F. McHugh's _China Mountain Zhang_ X-Now-Playing: Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft's _Gold und Liebe_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "04 Jul 1999 18:58:17 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070092 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.92) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ I think that a function which is like gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read > except that it ticks articles rather than marking them as read is > useful for mail groups, and will go a long way to making Gnus behave > like traditional mail readers. (Err, you also need to put this > function in gnus-mark-article-hook, of course.) > > What else is needed? Turning on total-expire? Is that sufficient? Well, don't people who want a Real Mail Reader want to explicitly delete mail? > I think there is no harm done in providing a few convenience functions > and maybe a bit of advice (read: sample Lisp code) for people who wish > to do this, so that they can try it for a couple of months before > realizing that they didn't want this in the first place :-) > > What do you think? Sounds like a good idea. Want to write the section in the manual that discusses this? :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen