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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>
Cc: bugs@gnus.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: message-shorten-references hardwired 21 references
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:57:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9u0cikcau.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877j9fbsko.fsf@jidanni.org> (Dan Jacobson's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:18:15 +0800")

[ Redirecting to ding@gnus ...]

On Wed, Jan 04 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> There should be a variable to allow users to have
> message-shorten-references use less than the hardwired 21 references.

Please elaborate why you think this would be useful.

> Also are you sure you want the oldest 21 references, not the latest?

I'm quite sure that Gnus does the right thing.  See section
"6.5. References" in [1].

> I want to just include the single very last reference but setting
> maxcount to 1 gives just the earliest.

Mail or news?

Bye, Reiner.

[1] http://www.karlsruhe.org/rfc/son1036.txt
    (expired, but AFAIK still best practice WRT shorting references) 
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       reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <877j9fbsko.fsf@jidanni.org>
2006-01-05 13:57 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2006-01-09 22:30   ` Dan Jacobson
2006-01-10 16:17     ` Reiner Steib

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