From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21488 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Manage todo items with Gnus Date: 23 Feb 1999 19:22:35 -0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86aeygk4dv.fsf@slowfox.frob.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159581 23172 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:19:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25686 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:29:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB07573; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:28:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:28:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA19872 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:28:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from grande.dcc.unicamp.br (grande.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.1.11]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25651 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:27:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.11]) by grande.dcc.unicamp.br (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA12632; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:22:44 -0200 (EDT) Original-Received: from araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br (araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.14]) by amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05023; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:22:40 -0200 (EDT) Original-To: François Pinard In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "22 Feb 1999 22:04:23 -0500" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070077 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.77) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21488 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21488 On Feb 23, 1999, François Pinard wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: >> It would be great if to-do were not a gnus back-end, just a minor >> mode that could be plugged onto any other e-mail back-ends. This would >> obviate the need for managing mbox files, avoinding gettign new mail, etc. ^ ^^ Jeez! Where's my spell checker! :-) > For TODO files, I just use `allout' mode, and like it very much. It is > exactly what I need. Isn't Gnus something quite complex, just to manage > a TODO list? What would be the incentive? The point is that my mailbox is my to-do list; I mark messages that need attention/reply and look at them in my second pass of mail reading. If they remain unattended for a while, or I know I won't have time to work on them in the near future, I just move them into one of my todo groups, all of them listed in a TODO topic whose contents are usually hidden, so that long-term to-do items don't get mixed up with short-term ones, and I don't have to be remembered of their existence all the time :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org} oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil