From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6883 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: article series (was: yet more Gnus questions & problems) Date: 22 Jun 1996 16:04:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <199606140448.AAA11991@csb.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147277 5120 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:54:37 +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 NAA32524 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:16:51 -0700 Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@CS.BU.EDU [128.197.13.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:07:29 +0200 Original-Received: from csb.bu.edu by cs.bu.edu (8.6.10/Spike-2.1) id QAA02543; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: by csb.bu.edu (8.6.10/Spike-2.1) id QAA02359; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:04:56 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 19 Jun 1996 10:18:56 +0200 Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.16/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6883 Joe> I think this action (the result of "M P S") should be done Joe> automatically by "X u". What good is it to try to uudecode one Joe> fragment of each series? Per> Gnus use heuristics to determine which messages belongs to the same Per> series. Sometimes the heuristics are wrong, in which case it is Per> good to have a way to manually specify the series. Lars> Well, you and Gnus may disagree what the series is. In that case, Lars> doing an automatic `M P S' before the `X u' would be lethal. I agree that there should be a way to specify things exactly. 99% of the time there is no need for that. The keystrokes that handle 99% of the cases should be short and easy while the keystrokes necessary to handle the complicated case may be long. -- Joe Wells