excessive dummy roots

excessive dummy roots

[Karl Kleinpaste]

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I've been using
      (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'dummy)
for most of all past eternity, but in recent Oort, it causes dummies
to be created for _every_ article, even when there's only one, or the
subthread in *Summary* is entirely self-contained.

I'm using 'empty for now, to reduce the annoyance, but can anyone tell
me why this new behavior has come along?

--karl

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Re: excessive dummy roots

[Mark Thomas]

On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, karl@charcoal.com wrote:

> I've been using
>       (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'dummy)
> for most of all past eternity, but in recent Oort, it causes dummies
> to be created for _every_ article

Add this to your ~/.gnus
  ;; only make the dummy root when there are threads
  (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root-always nil)

For the reason why, see the thread at
  <u1gxu44r.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>
  http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=m3vg1d66qm.fsf%40quimbies.gnus.org&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dgnus-summary-make-false-root-always%2Bding%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dm3vg1d66qm.fsf%2540quimbies.gnus.org%26rnum%3D1

-Mark

Re: excessive dummy roots

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Mark Thomas <swoon@bellatlantic.net> writes:
>   (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root-always nil)

Defaulting to t?  Good heavens, *why*?

(Not intending to shoot the messenger; thanx, Mark.  Just wondering.)

Re: excessive dummy roots

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

>>   (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root-always nil)
>
> Defaulting to t?  Good heavens, *why*?

It's a bug.  :-)

I've now defaulted it to nil.

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