* Chris K Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoted from Robin S. Socha:
>> And don't start a new thread if you're changing the subject... Like,
>> if you were using Gnus, you could be using this:
> Actually, I usually do use the ``(was Re: foo)'' convention, keeping
> within the thread.
It's "Was: <old subject>". "Was: Re:" does not make sense.
> In most cases, you're right, though.
Robin's always right. Or so they say...
>> > Then when people make ``alien threads'' (as I called them), they'd
>> > see the egregious mistake they made.
>> Well, there is a cure for that: Gnus.
> Well, I'm going to look at Gnus some day and see if Robin S. Socha is
> listed as a primary author.
He is a mere luser. Ummm... *rgrep* Wow, I'm in the Changelog...
> You seem to advertise it like I advertise my own programs. :-)
Naahhh... It's just that it cures *many* problems I've had with mailing
lists before. Cc: me to your heart's content - I ain't gonna be seeing
no stinkin' dupes, d00d3... It's also one of the few MUAs with generic
support for Maildir (mutt being the obvious alternative).
>> so you always end up writing demoronizing tools for their stuff.
> Yes. The most useful demoronising tool I've seen, so far, is mutt's
> default behaviour of ignoring text/html attachments.
Wow. But Gnus can always do better, y'know...
(setq
;; prefer to show plain text over markup for multipart/alternative
mm-discouraged-alternatives (append mm-discouraged-alternatives
'("text/html"
"text/richtext"
)))
And, I mean, since we're already lightyears off topic, so why not provide
some (hopefully) useful off topic-ness. I mean, take a close look at what
this stuff does - if everyone on this list had it, we'd be seeing a lot
less pesky mails. Really. And setting up Gnus and XEmacs under Windos
isn't really much of a challenge.
;:*=======================
;:* qmail-list group parameters for Gnus
;;* Address used by when doing followups and new posts.
; This is primarily useful in mail groups that represent closed mailing
; lists--mailing lists where it's expected that everybody that writes to
; the mailing list is subscribed to it. Since using this parameter
; ensures that the mail only goes to the mailing list itself, it means
; that members won't receive two copies of your followups.
(to-address . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
;:* Address used when doing a `a' in that group.
; It is totally ignored when doing a followup--except that if it is
; present in a news group, you'll get mail group semantics when doing
; `f'.
; If you do an `a' command in a mail group and you have neither a
; `to-list' group parameter nor a `to-address' group parameter, then a
; `to-list' group parameter will be added automatically upon sending the
; message if `gnus-add-to-list' is set to `t'.
(to-list . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
;;* `admin-address'
; When unsubscribing from a mailing list you should never send the
; unsubscription notice to the mailing list itself. Instead, you'd send
; messages to the administrative address. This parameter allows you to
; put the admin address somewhere convenient.
(admin-address . [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> I wonder if a decent TCO would come up with something like "nuking
>> Redmond will increase the world's productivity by 900%".
> After that, you still have AOLers to deal with...
You should consider buying large amounts of cattle-prod shares.
--
Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/Gnus/>
