From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54840 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: follow-up & CC Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:47:13 -0500 Organization: disorganization Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069188450 11410 80.91.224.253 (18 Nov 2003 20:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3380@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 18 21:47:28 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMCkx-0004RE-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:47:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AMCkq-0003o1-00; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:47:20 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AMCkm-0003nw-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:47:16 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0195B3A0026 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:47:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMCkl-0004sN-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:47:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMCkj-0004sF-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:47:13 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMCkj-0002xV-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:47:13 +0100 Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4PDWVj6XxbC7HEl1f/pjwqSIrrg= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54840 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54840 > * Reiner Steib <4.hpr.03.e.f@aheshrefcnz.qr> [2003-11-18 20:57:16 +0100]: > > On Tue, Nov 18 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > >>> * Reiner Steib <4.hpr.03.e.f@aheshrefcnz.qr> [2003-11-18 17:05:42 +0100]: > [...] >>> Maybe it would be better to use something like (gnus-string-equal (nth >>> 1 (mail-extract-address-components ...))). >> >> it depends on what you want. >> I wouldn't want to see _both_ "bar@foo.invalid" and >> "bar@foo.invalid.my.domain", I would prefer to either pick the shortest >> or the "correct" one or... > > Maybe my examples were too strange. "bar@foo.invalid" and > "bar@foo.invalid.my.domain" are completely different addresses. > E.g. I know about a domain where the local parts "au", "bau" and "nau" > exist and belong to different persons. It's wrong to assume that they > belong to the same person. OK, I guess your suggestion makes sense then. you might compare just the user name and not the full e-mail address. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k We're too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.