From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73360 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: make it easier to use nnml for archive groups Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:32:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8762wys1q8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vd4xnzn0.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877hhcnc49.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287588778 9645 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 15:32:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21731@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 20 17:32:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8aeq-0003XD-Ht for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:32:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8ael-0005bl-Jg; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8aek-0005bV-5S for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P8aef-0000JB-VW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P8aef-0005ex-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:32:41 +0200 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8aed-0001uH-O4; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:32:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877hhcnc49.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed\, 20 Oct 2010 09\:59\:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73360 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:31:47 +0200 Reiner Steib wrote: > > RS> On Tue, Oct 19 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >>> >>>> Unless somebody objects, I'm going to make the archive group default to >>>> the following: >>>> >>>> ((concat "sent." >>>> (format-time-string >>>> "%Yw%U" (current-time)))) >>> >>> aka (format-time-string "sent.%Yw%U" (current-time)). > > RS> I think one group per week is not a good choice. I don't think many > RS> people are able to remember "I wrote this mail in week no. 42". And > RS> many user run a Gnus session over week boundaries, I guess (I assume > RS> the value is set only at Gnus startup). > > RS> I'd suggest one group per year (or month). And offer "per week, > RS> month, year" as predefined choices in customize. > > How about these choices: > > "%Y-%m" ; 2010-01 > "%Y-%m-%d" ; 2010-01-01 > "%Y-%B" ; 2010-October (as per locale) > > I would not use the week number in any way. I don't know anyone who > remembers the week number 3 months ago, so it's just a hash bucket. One archive per month is too much too, after about 3 years there's too many groups, and there's no way to automatically compact them. One archive per year is better, the only limitation is that the nnfolder default would blow up really really fast.