From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61633 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message-shorten-references hardwired 21 references Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:57:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877j9fbsko.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 1136469769 30974 80.91.229.2 (5 Jan 2006 14:02:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bugs@gnus.org, ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10165=ding+2daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 05 15:02:43 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 1EuVhS-00086o-DB for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:02:42 +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 1EuVhR-0002jY-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:02:41 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EuVcJ-0002ix-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:57:23 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EuVcD-0000pw-Jx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:57:22 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.1]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EuVcC-0007a1-00; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:57:16 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k05DvDCx015123; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:57:14 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix, from userid 170) id 9DA1510E3E; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:57:13 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Dan Jacobson Mail-Followup-To: Dan Jacobson , ding@gnus.org X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY;Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m,tWj]&},qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi,+g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ In-Reply-To: <877j9fbsko.fsf@jidanni.org> (Dan Jacobson's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:18:15 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-WEiAPG-Metrics: gemini 1072; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61633 Archived-At: [ 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) -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/