[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Goldberg) writes:
> Ask yourself: "of all the addresses I am automatically snarfing, what
> percentage do I really want to keep?" If that number is low, then
> turn off automatic snarfing of addresses and just add the ones you
> want by hand (in gnus type a colon (:) in the summary buffer.) A more
> complicated approach, and what I use: if there's a particular group or
> set of groups you want to do automatic snarfing in, you can set that
> properly with gnus-select-group-hook.
This is OK, as long as you are using the BBDB exclusively as an
address-book-style system, where you always want to keep everything you
add.
But the BBDB is also useful to do things like track people with
frequently changing email addresses in news, and track people with
morphing names (`ah, this person called `Foo' is the person who normally
is called `Bar'') and who normally have no name in their From line but
who you'd like to see as a named individual nonetheless. These records
may well be transitory in nature.
I use the BBDB in both ways, as a super-address-book-cum-database, and
as an identity tracker. For the former, persistence is good; but for the
latter something like expiry is actually quite useful.
--
`Normally, we don't do people's homework around here, but Venice
is a very beautiful city, so I'll make a small exception.'
--- Robert Redelmeier compromises his principles
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