Re: "subscribed" has overloaded meaning in gnus?

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

"Matt Armstrong" <matt+dated+1010595772.908bba@lickey.com> writes:

> Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>
>> I'm using a couple month-old Oort 0.04.  I'm a little confused as to
>> what 'subscribed' means as a group parameter.
>
> Yes I think it should be documented.  There was a recent post to
> 'ding' that documented the MFT stuff.  I don't know if this parameter
> was documented there or not.

It wasn't.  Maybe your "preferred" snippet below should be included in
that documentation, since I think it is a nice way to get your MFT
working without duplicating your list of mailing lists addresses in
another place.

> The group parameter "subscribed" simply means "consider the to-address
> or to-list parameter of this group to be that of a mailing list you're
> subscribed to."  The only place it is currently used in Gnus is in
> gnus-find-subscribed-addresses.
>
> Perhaps the parameter should be "mailing-list-subscribed" or
> "address-subscribed" or "to-addresses-subscribed" something else?

Based on your definition, I would vote for "mailing-list-subscribed".

> Instead of the hook, I think this ended up being the "preferred" way
> of doing it.
>
>     (setq message-subscribed-address-functions
>           '(gnus-find-subscribed-addresses))

Thanks, that looks much better.  I think this should go in the
recently posted MFT docs, as noted above.

> Your method is technically wrong since gnus-find-subscribed-addresses
> does not return a set of regexps (but it'll mostly work).

Hmm.  It does return a list on mine (I'm using >month-old Oort 0.04),
containing a single regexp.  Maybe that's why it has been working for
me.
-- 
Benjamin