On Thu, Feb 03 2011, Richard Riley wrote:

>
> Almost everyone agrees with that I think. The issue for most is the animation
> not being on. There are also methods documented/wikied on how to do that using
> the summary format functions. e.g I adopted the one which says "today"
> "yesterday" etc in the left of the summary line.
>
>   (setq  gnus-user-date-format-alist
>          ;; Format the date so we can see today/tomorrow quickly.
>          ;; See http://emacs.wordpress.com/category/gnus/ for the original.
>          '(
>            ((gnus-seconds-today) . "Today, %H:%M")
>            ((+ 86400 (gnus-seconds-today)) . "Yesterday, %H:%M")
>            (604800 . "%A %H:%M") ;;that's one week
>            ((gnus-seconds-month) . "%A %d")
>            ((gnus-seconds-year) . "%B %d")
>            (t . "%B %d '%y"))) ;;this one is used when no other does match

I think it would made better default.

Lars, would you mind if I change the default value to this?

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Julien Danjou
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