From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40714 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: possible strange idea about hierarchical lists Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:55:19 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176222 2399 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:57:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 7914 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 08:56:21 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 08:56:21 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16BXqc-0002Vl-00; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 02:56:10 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 05 Dec 2001 02:55:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA03137 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 02:55:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 7895 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2001 08:55:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7890 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 08:55:52 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 08:55:52 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id fB58tPb23118 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:55:25 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id JAA04660; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:55:19 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id A665D208C; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:55:19 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:38:41 -0500") Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40714 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40714 Ted Zlatanov writes: > You are right. It's faster and easier (for implementer and user) to > use a 2-level list. But is anyone except me interested in it? I think the feature is too cool to be comprehended easily. Just go ahead and add it, and in ten years, when people have become wiser, they will thank you for it :-) Or it's just me who is dimwitted and has problems seeing the benefits... Anyhow, some thinking about it indicates a high coolness factor. kai -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)