From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14524 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tommy Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Hierarchical group names - component separator Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:21:58 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294060945 9641 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 13:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:22:25 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 14:22:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZkMd-0007GJ-Um for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:22:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZkMd-00072l-Az for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:22:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40697 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZkMa-00072d-NF for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZkMZ-00024Q-KU for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:22:16 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZkMZ-00023y-CW for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZkMX-00078i-5E for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:22:13 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com ([70.112.150.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:22:13 +0100 Original-Received: from tommy.kelly by cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:22:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BF1jLaC/7CnnAjxQnAdBN0hSpqo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14524 Archived-At: Can anyone see a problem with using "/" us the separator of components in a hierarchical group name. For example, instead of: mylists.linkedin.updates mylists.linkedin.groups.gnus mylists.linkedin.groups.yaks I'd use: mylists/linkedin/updates mylists/linkedin/groups/gnus mylists/linkedin/groups/yaks The reason is that gmail supports "folding" of the latter style. My concern though is that somewhere deep in the current or planned lisp, using "/" will break something. If it's currently allowed, then maybe take this email as a pointing-out of the fact that gmail *does* indeed support use of "/" and so it would be nice if it remained allowed in the future :-) Tommy