From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27493 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What now? Date: 02 Dec 1999 13:59:16 +1100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84bt8kpxba.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au> <7s4se2uqao.fsf@brutus.mts.jhu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164512 24876 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09259 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:00:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB03000; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:00:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 Dec 1999 21:00:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01589 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:59:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (bam@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.7]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09237 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:59:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id NAA01469; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:59:16 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 02:19:01 +0100" Original-Lines: 47 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27493 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> I'm sure somebody will think of something. :-) Or one could Lars> start working on that TODO list that's in the manual. If you seriously want suggestions for new features ;-) I have always felt it would be benefit if I could have a mail program (eg PGnus) that was integrated with a calander program (eg the one that comes with xemacs). That would be used something like the following: - browsing through the calendar, you see that there are four messages attached to tomorrow's date. You click on a link, and it automatically shows a message, where your boss is reminding you about an important due date that you had forgotten about. - when this due date is near, PGnus automatically makes the message as important (!), even if you have already read it. - after the due date has elapsed, PGnus automatically marks the message as expirable and/or deletes it immediately. - another possibility: You see a message, and think you might be able to reply to it, but first you want to wait a week, just in case anybody else (with a better understanding) replies first. You could mark the message with ?, but then you may forget about it if no one else replies (which might be a good thing ;-) ). So you could set a rule "mark this message with ! in one week's time". Or even better: "mark this message and all followups with ! in one week's time". As for implementing this stuff, I don't know how you would do it. It is just something I have always wanted. At the moment, I have folders set (mbox format, haven't converted to PGnus yet) as ~/Mail/calender/y$year/m$month but this is awkward and inconvenient, and there is no way to sort by date. Similarly, there is no way to "attach" multiple dates to one item of mail, without making duplicates, which is even messier. -- Brian May