(message-draft-p)

Hi list,

What's the best way to wirte a function

 (message-draft-p)

for use in posting styles?

Or perhaps such a function already exists somewhere.

I've had this hook in place for so long I forgot I ever wrote it:

(add-hook 'gnus-summary-prepared-hook
	  (lambda () (when (equal gnus-newsgroup-name "nndraft:drafts")
		       (gnus-draft-mode 1))))

so my only idea for (message-draft-p) is simply to check if the *Summary*
buffer is in draft mode...

But no doubt there's a better way?

Sebastian

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Re: limiting articles and tagging

William Xu <william.xwl <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I would also like to know a better way if any.  At present, I use "!".

I use a combination of "!" (ticking) "?" (dormant article) and
association with my org-mode set up.

For mails, I try to stick to the five actions Merlin Mann describes in
his talk "Inbox Zero": 

1. Delete
2. Delegate
3. Respond
4. Defer
5. Do

(I don't delete, I archive.)

I use "!" to defer things I want to keep in sight.  I use "?" to defer
interesting things that I don't want to keep in sight.  I use remember
and Org for things that enters into an Org project and that I need to
plan.

I'd say that the distribution among deferred emails is this:

 ticked: 10%
dormant: 30%
 planed: 60%

And I try to keep the proportion of deferred emails below 50% of all

Re: limiting articles and tagging

Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> writes:

> I use "?" to defer interesting things that I don't want to keep in
> sight.

I find "?" uncomfortable to use: I tried marking some article in some
group, then later, when I wanted to access it again, I had no clue which
group it was ! Thus I ended it up with saving those articles in a
specific group.

> I use remember and Org for things that enters into an Org project and
> that I need to plan.

Hm, maybe Org mode is the better solution here(like remembering mails to
reply, mails waiting for response).  I should try to learn it.

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Re: limiting articles and tagging

William Xu <william.xwl <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hm, maybe Org mode is the better solution here(like remembering mails to
> reply, mails waiting for response).  I should try to learn it.

Org will not only be useful to store email-based tasks.  It will also be
useful to store mairix searches, and to let them pop up as tasks in your
agenda.  

For example, you can search for the mails you received from X in the
last month and create a task to process those emails every month.

I find this very powerful and this help me keep a clean inbox.

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Re: limiting articles and tagging

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:31:45 +0200, Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> wrote:
> William Xu <william.xwl <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hm, maybe Org mode is the better solution here(like remembering mails to
>> reply, mails waiting for response).  I should try to learn it.
>
> Org will not only be useful to store email-based tasks.  It will also be
> useful to store mairix searches, and to let them pop up as tasks in your
> agenda.

Hi Bastien,

How do you add links to an org-mode file when reading articles?

Re: limiting articles and tagging

Hi Giorgos,

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida <at> ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> How do you add links to an org-mode file when reading articles?

If you are using a recent version of Org, first make sure the module
org-gnus is loaded at startup:

,----
| M-x customize-variable RET org-modules RET
`----

Then set up remember to work with Org:

,----
| (org-remember-insinuate)
`----

I set org-remember to C-M-r:

,----
| (global-set-key [(control meta r)] 'org-remember)
`----

Then define your templates:

,----
| (setq org-remember-templates 
|       '(("Buffer" ?b "* %a\n\n%i%?%!" "~/org/bzg.org" "Buffer" nil)

Re: limiting articles and tagging

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:21:03 +0200, Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev <at> gmail.com> said:
> David Carlton <carlton <at> bactrian.org> writes:

>> I'd like a way to mark certain articles in an nnmail group with a tag
>> (e.g. articles I want to respond to, articles where I'm waiting for a
>> specific response), and then to have a way to only see the matching
>> articles in that group.

> While not exactly what you want, I tend to use org-mode for this - I
> simply "remember" the mails/posts I want to respond to and tag
> them/schedule them accordingly in org files. Doing the work is then a
> single key press away from my agenda/list of things to do (org-mode
> stores a link to the gnus article).

Thanks, I'll look into that - that sounds like it might be a good fit
for me, too.

David Carlton
carlton <at> bactrian.org

Re: limiting articles and tagging

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:09:56 +0200, Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> said:

> William Xu <william.xwl <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> I would also like to know a better way if any.  At present, I use "!".

> I use a combination of "!" (ticking) "?" (dormant article) and
> association with my org-mode set up.

Huh, didn't know about ?.  I think ! and ? is barely too small for me,
but maybe that will work.  I'll start with org-mode, though, since it
seems to be getting several votes.

David Carlton
carlton <at> bactrian.org

Splitting up mailing list messages

Hi,

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on what splitting methods people
use for mailing lists they are subscribed to.

Currently I have one group (mail.lists) where any subscribed groups
go, however the mails from all lists get all mixed up and the regexp
for the nnmail-split-methods rule is getting rather long.

Do people create a new group for each list with a corresponding
nnmail-split-method? How do you handle this stuff?

Thanks
Pete

Re: Splitting up mailing list messages

Pete Axon <paxon <at> bigblue.net.au> writes:

> Do people create a new group for each list with a corresponding
> nnmail-split-method? How do you handle this stuff?

I use one group per mailing list. The split is done with bbdb split via
the gnus-public field.

Charles

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