Re: feature suggestion, if I can remember it.

[Wes Hardaker <Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch>]

>>>>> On 08 Feb 1997 10:22:41 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> said:

Wes> I thought it would be cool to have user definable group params.  For
Wes> instance, you could define the parameter 'my-personal-parameter' to
Wes> map to some more regular parameter expression (ie, ((display all)
Wes> (dummy (progn run-mucho-stuffo)) ...)).  This way, for users that have
Wes> a lot of groups which should be marked similarily, they don't have to
Wes> put them all in one topic if they don't want to, but yet its still
Wes> easy to add and maintain a common set of group parameters by rolling
Wes> your own.  You wouldn't have to change it in every group you were
Wes> using to make a change!

Lars> Hm...  Metaparameters.  Is this really necessary now that we have
Lars> topic parameters?

Yes!  Re-read the above, as I said its possible you want all of one
set of groups to have a specific set of parameters, but they are all
members of topics related to the subject type, not how you want to be
reading them.  For instance, I want to sort my snmp related groups
into one topic, because they are all related subject wise.  However, I
want to treat them like my inbox because I'm the mailing list
maintainer of 2 of the 3 mailing lists and I need to make sure they
are answered properly if no one else takes the questions.  My inbox
has a *huge* set of parameters, which I don't want to copy to each
group every time I make a change.  Currently I have all these groups
in an inbox topic, because I *can't* sort them by subject without
copying parameters so I sort by type, which I consider to be more
important in this case.

I think this would fix up the 'undefined' comment in the topic
discussion in the manual (ie, a group is listed in two topics).  tell
them they can create their own parameters if they want to always apply
a parameter to multiple groups.

Ok, I'm done typing...

(this should be fairly easy shouldn't it?)
Wes