From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48502 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: hiding (or abbreviating) long lists of recipients Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:31:28 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041453090 1327 80.91.224.249 (1 Jan 2003 20:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:31:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TpWS-0000LE-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:31:28 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18TpWm-0006dx-00; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 14:31:48 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 Jan 2003 14:32:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA20695 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:32:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 51265 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2003 20:31:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 51260 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2003 20:31:30 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 1 Jan 2003 20:31:30 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18TpXQ-00025o-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:32:28 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041453148 3740 80.91.231.2 (1 Jan 2003 20:32:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jan 2003 20:32:28 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Plunderphonics's _69-96 (2)_: "Abner Newton & Brain In Slow - Ten4GV" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: ZVVKDU@pFr7UG[X]A`-FE6kqo\S`laW-.nbRS%Em$P{cL\WHEm|9Vp$J1[U8?*>lG1OPL+/ $S-Cs%n.cL10n-JYPrc31}}nH\,t+u9,=nly/RREiXY+}6qB+72vuz9g+&"$oxi&R^?XMm#[p7I>2 'fcj5IDF4q45LwtyQy[9XJT%!HFPk[TzAmwDy^bnSYGM<|E7~D7(?O'"m{V- Cancel-Lock: sha1:dVRP4eTrcPkQbjsOQFiV12TTDyw= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48502 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48502 John H Palmieri 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