From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28544 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A New Year's Resolution Date: 03 Jan 2000 15:26:43 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200001031934.OAA13287@wmperry.bp.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165372 30420 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E05FD051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:31:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB08140; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:28:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 17:28:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16763 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:28:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 63A32D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:26:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 18374 invoked by uid 50); 3 Jan 2000 23:26:43 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Laura Conrad's message of "03 Jan 2000 17:37:57 -0500" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28544 Laura Conrad writes: >>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: > Russ> Hm... speaking of this, is there a good way in Gnus to get the > Russ> number of ticked or unread articles in a specific newsgroup > Russ> from anywhere inside Gnus (not necessarily in that particular > Russ> newsgroup)? If there is, I could write a quick little > Russ> function to respond to a message with something like "I've > Russ> received your e-mail, and this is a semi-automated response. > Russ> Please be patient... I have 253 pending mail messages to > Russ> respond to, but I promise I'll get to yours as soon as I can." > For that application, does it matter if the count is correct? Well, no, but it would be kind of cool. :) -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)