From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39527 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Generating Mail-Followup-To: headers Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:41:25 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9m9fs6b.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87elo1exsd.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87u1wvkaiv.fsf@mclinux.com> <87zo6nftt7.fsf@mclinux.com> <87u1wvftms.fsf@mclinux.com> <87adyngzv4.fsf@mclinux.com> <87adynmk0c.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175225 28475 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 458 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 09:43:20 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 09:43:20 -0000 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 15usdv-0001rS-00; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:41:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA19567 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:41:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 442 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2001 09:41:54 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 437 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2001 09:41:53 -0000 Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (130.225.40.227) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Oct 2001 09:41:53 -0000 Original-Received: from ssv2.dina.kvl.dk (ssv2.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.226]) by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id LAA26875; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from abraham by ssv2.dina.kvl.dk with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15usdB-00080j-00; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:41:25 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:12:52 -0400") Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39527 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39527 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Matt Armstrong wrote: > >> Even if I could I won't like having to explicitly escape all the '.' >> and other characters in the list addresses. > > Do you know about regexp-quote? It doesn't help when setting the variable though customize, which is the most likely case for a user uncomfortable with regexps. >> I suppose in a contrived example, you could specify >> "topic-.*@list\\.example\\.com" to get topic-devel, topic-user, >> etc. but these cases are rare and people can just explicitly list all >> of them. > > I don't think they're very rare. But they are certainly finite, so > specifying them individually could still work. I think they are uncommon enough that even for the experienced user, listing them all explicitly would be easier