From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28917 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Mailing list handling wishlist Date: 21 Jan 2000 19:24:22 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165678 32293 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AEFD051E for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:25:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB19649; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:25:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:24:41 -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 VAA11080 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:24:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A1EED051E for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 22:24:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 26178 invoked by uid 50); 22 Jan 2000 03:24:23 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Didier Verna's message of "21 Jan 2000 14:02:59 +0100" Original-Lines: 38 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:28917 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28917 Didier Verna writes: > Not that I know of. This idea also came to my mind a while ago. > Ideally, you should be able to type u on a mailing-list group in order > prepare [un]subscription to the associated mailing list. However, the > design of such a feature should be though of carefully as the > [un]subscription methods vary greatly in the universe (on earth, > particularly). This would be truly cool, though. And given some of the amazing things in Gnus already, I'll be ambituous and ask for the moon. :) * Parsing of the common list confirmation requests so that Gnus can prepare the response with a single command. Including LISTSERV periodic ping messages and the like. * Parsing of the various List-* headers to enable automatic commands like "send help message," "send unsubscribe message," and the like. * Parsing of the subscription notice to stash away details like what address you're subscribed to the list under (and automatically send mail to the list using that address, when you send mail inside the list group), what address to mail to unsubscribe, and the list info message if available. Hitting the "get FAQ" command inside a mailing list group should display that stashed copy of the info message. * Some help in coming up with good split rules for mailing lists, as automated as possible. Splitting on To and Cc is almost always not what I want, since it can misfile messages and since if I'm cc'd on list mail I want to get both copies, one in my personal mailbox and one in the list mailbox. I know other people handle it other ways, but I prefer it that way. Accordingly, some way to semi-automatically generate split rules based on Sender, Mailing-List, Return-Path, X-Loop, and all of the other random headers that often work would be very cool. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)