From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61659 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message-shorten-references hardwired 21 references Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:17:36 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <87psn1t4ot.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136910797 496 80.91.229.2 (10 Jan 2006 16:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10191@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 10 17:33:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwMQT-00073E-MQ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:32:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EwMQO-0004xW-00; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:32:44 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EwMPW-0004xR-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:50 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EwMPO-0000Ex-UF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:50 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EwMPN-0002Cn-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:31:41 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EwMOo-0006W1-8X for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:31:06 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:31:06 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:31:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iEFUVrZtRwMmunTcE2Lx6EeDzW8= X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61659 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 09 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote: > R> I'm quite sure that Gnus does the right thing. See section > R> "6.5. References" in [1]. > > It is permissible to not include the entire previous "References" > line if it is too long. An attempt should be made to include a > reasonable number of backwards references. > > He just says "reasonable". And "if it is too long". > I say that the newest 21 is the only way to keep threads intact, > vs. the oldest 21, no? You've misread the code. It keeps the first MID and the last 20 MIDs: ELISP> (setq rs-test " ... ... ") ELISP> (with-temp-buffer (message-shorten-references 'References rs-test) (buffer-string)) "References: ... ... " Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/