From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28545 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laura Conrad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A New Year's Resolution Date: 03 Jan 2000 18:28:32 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200001031934.OAA13287@wmperry.bp.aventail.com> <200001032325.SAA13813@wmperry.bp.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165373 30436 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8C4D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:34:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB08164; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:30:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:30:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16817 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:30:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from serpent.local (world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2811D051F for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:28:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by serpent.local (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4AC922CEF3; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:28:34 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #0j-Ll[fajrfupWYMv&wa\m7!Sh=&3;JE-_&M-L,ULz(aE8iu%m1SHa5wG.V{3B:Fdnd/T# O -}0pPGYw%t1z`o&T_c=)p8l[}7R\={[@B*Jyj*.L4 hnJ*AXb In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:25:49 -0500" Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Arches) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28545 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28545 >>>>> "bp" == William M Perry writes: bp> Laura Conrad writes: >> >>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: >> >> Russ> Hm... speaking of this, is there a good way in Gnus to get Russ> the number of ticked or unread articles in a specific Russ> newsgroup from anywhere inside Gnus (not necessarily in that Russ> particular newsgroup)? If there is, I could write a quick Russ> little function to respond to a message with something like Russ> "I've received your e-mail, and this is a semi-automated Russ> response. Please be patient... I have 253 pending mail Russ> messages to respond to, but I promise I'll get to yours as Russ> soon as I can." >> >> For that application, does it matter if the count is correct? bp> (random 500)? (random 500) + 300 You don't want "I have 3 pending mail messages to respond to..." Or worse "I have 1 pending mail messages to respond to..." -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@world.std.com , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139