Re: Feature Request. Topic Group Parameters...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Ah, so you want different behavior depending which copy of the group
> you select.  So you could have one copy of an nntp group in one topic
> with threading, and another copy in another topic without threading
> and with the `to-list' set to an alternative mail address. 

Yup.  I've now implemented this.

> That sounds like a good idea, but some functions should be able to
> "stick" with a group wherever it goes.  Like `auto-expire'.  I guess
> you could say that if someone decides to read mail from their boss
> under a topic which has this set, then they should not be surprised
> when all read messages in that group expire.

And there are some operations that aren't really
group-buffer-conscious -- like `gnus-group-expire-all-groups'.  If a
mail group belongs to two topics, one with `total-expiry' and one
without, it's kinda hard to decide what to do.  I think I'll just have
the manual say that it's "undefined" what happens and let the user
deal with it.  

It's only `total-expiry' that has this problem, though, so perhaps one
could do something clever with that, but I don't quite know what...

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen