From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34941 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: regexp-based group parameters Date: 23 Feb 2001 16:57:48 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <873dfg9z1x.fsf@splinter.inka.de> <87wvcs8awc.fsf@splinter.inka.de> <878zp71ef0.fsf@lovi.inf.elte.hu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170770 415 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:26:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9713D049F for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:58:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB23588; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:58:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:57:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13892 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:57:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu [129.22.96.25]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 32E92D049F for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:57:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 21130 invoked by uid 500); 23 Feb 2001 21:58:10 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "23 Feb 2001 22:35:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34941 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > I like to be able to say that all nnml:auto.* groups are > auto-expirable. This way, I can put auto-expirable groups in various > topics and I don't have to worry about setting the parameter on each > and every new group (where I think it's appriate). Note that the hierarchy I suggested for parameters would be orthogonal to the hierarchy for UI (topics). Is using an "auto.*" name for a group any easier than adding a "parameter-parent" parameter? Hmm... I can imagine it would be useful for a group to have an ordered list of parents. Then groups g1 and g2 could share one set of attributes via a common parent p1, while g1 shares another set of attributes with group g3 via another parent p2; g2 wouldn't need to be a descendent of p2, and g3 wouldn't need to be a descendent of p1. > Just to provide a counter-opinion to yours. Maybe regexp matching is > useful to some people and thus shouldn't be removed. It's certainly useful. But if we can provide a single unified way of doing things that's at least *as useful* as any existing scheme, then that would seem like a good thing to do. paul