From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:16:34 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <865zz8e0kd.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536927510 31507 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 12:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:18:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 14:18:26 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n3J-00085F-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:18:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n5O-0006lm-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:20:34 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:adf:a647:: with SMTP id k65-v6mr1187173wrc.29.1536927395304; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 05:16:35 -0700 (PDT) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 78.192.65.63 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!143-v6no708179wmm.0!news-out.google.com!z184-v6ni2610wmz.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.muarf.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QkjtGYh8t8n0Be9U9wTPVqYuE0I= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223784 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117909 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > When you have a good idea what is you are > searching form, i.e. remember some unique > phrase or some other attribute, then folders > are entirely irrelevant, because you can > search all of your archives in milliseconds. > Folders are only of help when you don't have > a good idea what to search for, and only > a very vague recollection of the issue you > want to find. OK, now the discussion is upside down! The directory approach is not to facilitate the user to manually ravage around with the files, altho that's a positive side-effect. The directories are used by Gnus to organize the material so you can access it thru the Gnus interface! So for example, I'll just yank mine: 3 alt.tv.survivor 486 nntp.aioe.org 6 gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel 1162 44064 6 gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user 166 18781 6 gmane.comp.sysutils.docker.devel 43 3365 3 gmane.comp.sysutils.docker.user 11789 6 gmane.comp.sysutils.dtrace.user 4921 4921 6 gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user 22290 6 gmane.emacs.erc.general 1454 3 gmane.emacs.gnus.general 84345 3 gmane.emacs.gnus.user 18887 6 gmane.emacs.help 1492 117893 6 gmane.emacs.w3m 83 9796 3 9 gnu.emacs.help 1 1337 nntp.aioe.org 3 3 mail.misc 8466 6 mail.sent 6656 3 rec.bicycles.tech 3403 nntp.aioe.org -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573