From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44290
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: hiding (or abbreviating) long lists of recipients
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:11:08 -0700
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <s5tn0w3wayr.fsf@goedel2.math.washington.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018995163 11373 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 22:12:43 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:12:43 +0000 (UTC)
Return-path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
	id 16xbBr-0002xK-00
	for <ding-account@gmane.org>; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:12:43 +0200
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 16xbAm-0001Dn-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:11:36 -0500
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:11:47 -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 RAA18936
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:11:36 -0500 (CDT)
Original-Received: (qmail 8326 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2002 22:11:15 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 8321 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2002 22:11:15 -0000
Original-Received: from euler.math.washington.edu (128.95.224.1)
  by gnus.org with SMTP; 16 Apr 2002 22:11:15 -0000
Original-Received: from goedel2.math.washington.edu (goedel2.math.washington.edu [128.95.224.11])
	by euler.math.washington.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3GMBAS512568;
	Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
Original-Received: (from palmieri@localhost)
	by goedel2.math.washington.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3GMBAo153135;
	Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
X-Authentication-Warning: goedel2.math.washington.edu: palmieri set sender to palmieri@math.washington.edu using -f
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
X-Face: ,;upNQ$t/)!L]^R9Po%swv4<z?~Yuu~AaN37_ZF?7GZA5A_"j|];J9NBVl@Yc+btFT&;_BPbv]FO
Original-Lines: 23
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (alphaev5-dec-osf5.1)
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44290
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44290

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 "...".

If it's not built in, has anyone done something like this with
gnus-part-display-hook?

-- 
J. H. Palmieri                      
Gnus doesn't kill people, Emacs kills people.