Re: Keeping interesting messages

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

> One thing I'm still not sure of the best way to handle, though. I'd
> like to be able to "keep" messages and news articles that interest me
> - possibly for a long time, possibly just for a few days (until I get
> a chance to deal with it). I don't want to leave the messages
> unread, as that interferes with my normal scan-read-catchup approach
> to reading groups. I'd rather keep the messages either in their
> original groups, or in some sort of "parallel" arrangement, so I
> don't lose track of where they came from.

This is what I do:

a) for messages I'm going to reply to, I immediately hit R C-c C-d if
   I don't have time to reply right away. (which is almost always)
   Then, the message is sitting in my drafts folder.
b) for saving interesting messages, I use a little function I wrote:

;; bind a key that copies an article to the group
;; archive.<groupname>

(defun jmh:save-archive ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((group-name (if (string-match ":" gnus-newsgroup-name)
			(substring gnus-newsgroup-name (match-end 0))
		      gnus-newsgroup-name)))
    (gnus-summary-copy-article 1 (concat "archive." group-name))))

(add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook
	  '(lambda ()
	     (local-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'jmh:save-archive)
	     (local-set-key (kbd "C-c p") 'jmh:forward-to-spamcop)))

This way, if I want to save a message for longer-term, I just hit C-c
s.

Also, be sure to add whatever your archive groups are called to the
gnus-auto-subscribed-groups regexp.

ttyl,

-- 
Josh Huber