Re: Groups which have new mails

[Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM>]

Justin Sheehy writes:

  Justin> Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:
  >> WIBNI one could list only the groups which has new mails?  This makes
  >> mail reading much easier if you have tons of mail groups.

  Justin> That is how it works for me, without modification.

  Justin> Only groups with unread messages appear in the Group buffer.
  Justin> Unread messages are close enough to 'new' messages that this is
  Justin> basically the same thing.  I define 'new' as "things I haven't
  Justin> seen yet".

Guess we have a different definition of 'new' mails.  By 'new' mails I mean
mails that just get incorporated by doing 'g'.

  Justin> You don't do something silly like keeping messages that you've
  Justin> read marked as unread, do you?  ;-)

That is exactly what I do.  Why not?  I can't find better way of keeping the
articles I need to re-visit or reply.  I know about the read marks and tick
mark.  I use tick marks for articles I want to keep in the group till hell
freezes.  I don't use read marks at all because 'C-u SPC' (to see all
articles) on a group with many articles is VERY slow (at least for nnfolder
anyways.  see <yj9u2uzu83y.fsf@adobe.com>).  I explicitly bind 'd' to
gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable for article deletion.  All unread articles
are the one I need to re-visit or reply.  Also, movement commands doesn't
work well on read articles ('n'/'p' moves between unread articles only).

I think you are right in <glmlngbwzji.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org>; I haven't
fully adjusted to the Gnus Way of reading mail after 4 years of using it.

I wonder how people use marks on mail groups for the purpose of keeping
articles and indicating an need-to-be-late article.  

Any Gnus experts wanna speaks up here?

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