From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7670 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Annotations and such Date: 19 Aug 1996 20:07:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147951 8137 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA20826 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:57:30 -0700 Original-Received: from ylfing.ifi.uio.no (ylfing.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.25]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 20:38:00 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by ylfing.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 20:37:59 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 19 Aug 1996 13:50:28 +0200 Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.14/Emacs 19.29 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Status is a bad name for a new mail header, it is already used by bsd > mail for storing read/seen status. Try labels, no reason to invent a > new name for an existing (in other programs) feature. Right -- "label" it is. > For nnml, I think which (extra) headers to store in the overview file > should be an user option. I'd like to be able to store `To' and > perhaps `Cc' in the overview for mail groups. You could use these > fast with scoring or summary generation. Yes, that would be useful, but I still haven't quite worked out how to use the extra headers inside Gnus without adding too much complexity. > I think the default should be that there is no implicit use of labels. > Labels can be used with limits, or score, or perhaps in the summary > line, but this must be activated explicitly by the user. This way, it > doesn't matter that parsing nnmbox would be slower, as the extra > parsing is only done on the users request. Sure. But if the label stuff slows things down too much, nobody will use it. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."