Process mark use cases

Process mark use cases

[Daniel Brockman]

Hi,

I'm curious about how people use process marks.
So, if you want, just reply with a description of
what you use process marks for, and how.


Thanks,

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

Re: Process mark use cases

[Daniel Brockman]

CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com> writes:

> I like to put NGs under topics. For example, I may open gmane and
> subscribe to many groups at one time, and I mark all Emacs related
> groups (like Bongo ;-p),

Hey! :-)

> and T m emacs RET

I see.

> For emails, I dont do split while receiving them. I keep them in inbox
> thus I wont forget to reply them when I have time. And after some time,
> when things settled, I move them to specific groups for archiving. I use
> structure like:
> biz.some-company
> prv.some-person
>
> So I frequently do mark, B m

Okay.  Yes, moving seems like a popular use case.

> Mostly for these two purposes.

Thanks.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

Re: Process mark use cases

[Daniel Brockman]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

> Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:
>
>> I'm curious about how people use process marks.
>> So, if you want, just reply with a description of
>> what you use process marks for, and how.
>
> The only things I really use them for are for moving
> articles around and expiring them.  Consider:
>
> # # # # M-& E  (mark some articles, then expire the batch)

Why not just `E E E E'?

> # # # # B m    (mark some articles and move them somewhere)
> M P b B DEL    (mark everything visible, and delete it)
>
> It's a useful feature to have, but not something I really
> use every day.

Okay, thanks.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

Re: Process mark use cases

[CHENG Gao]

*On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:24:49 +0100
* Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> climbed out of the dark hell and cried out:

> Hi,
>
> I'm curious about how people use process marks.
> So, if you want, just reply with a description of
> what you use process marks for, and how.
>
>
> Thanks,
I like to put NGs under topics. For example, I may open gmane and
subscribe to many groups at one time, and I mark all Emacs related
groups (like Bongo ;-p), and T m emacs RET

For emails, I dont do split while receiving them. I keep them in inbox
thus I wont forget to reply them when I have time. And after some time,
when things settled, I move them to specific groups for archiving. I use
structure like:
biz.some-company
prv.some-person

So I frequently do mark, B m

Mostly for these two purposes.

Re: Process mark use cases

[David Z Maze]

Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:

> I'm curious about how people use process marks.
> So, if you want, just reply with a description of
> what you use process marks for, and how.

The only things I really use them for are for moving articles around
and expiring them.  Consider:

# # # # M-& E  (mark some articles, then expire the batch)
# # # # B m    (mark some articles and move them somewhere)
M P b B DEL    (mark everything visible, and delete it)

It's a useful feature to have, but not something I really use every
day.

  --dzm