From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: hiding (or abbreviating) long lists of recipients
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:31:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptrgzk67.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5tn0w3wayr.fsf@goedel2.math.washington.edu>
John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu> writes:
> Every now and then, someone sends me and 50 other people email, with
> all of our addresses in the "To" field. I see that if I set
> gnus-boring-article-headers and gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers
> appropriately, I can completely hide this header. What I *really*
> want, though, is for it to be abbreviated, so that it looks like this:
>
> To: bozo@clown.com, dubya@whitehouse.gov, ...
>
> Or maybe it could look like this:
>
> To: [addresses of 51 recipients hidden]
>
> Is this functionality built into gnus? I'm looking for a variable
> that says to abbreviate long lists of recipients in the To field, and
> perhaps a customization that controls how many addresses (or lines of
> addresses?) appear before the rest are replaced with "...".
That sounds like a useful feature. I think the best way to implement
this would be to create a new treatment variable that hides long
address headers, and a variable to say how long is long. Sounds
reasonable?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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