Re: on Gnus

From	yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: on Gnus
Date	2023-12-08 01:04 +0000
Organization	Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
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Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:

> The summary buffer should not let names vary in width because that
> doesn't let subjects align very well and the thread shapes are
> important to be viewed properly.

Yip.  I've constant width for names:

-----------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
O  20230908T145052 [Sn!pe          ][    0] +-> How to change the Subject of a Usenet article (Was: Re: Recent spam on  comp.lang.c)
O  20230908T232734 [candycanearter0][    0] | +-> Re: How to change the Subject of a Usenet article (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c)
O  20230909T085712 [Sn!pe          ][    0] | | \-> Re: How to change the Subject of a Usenet article
O  20230909T205426 [candycanearter0][    0] | |   \-> 
O  20230909T210819 [Ben Bacarisse  ][    0] | |     +-> 
----------------------------------->8-----------------------------------

The score shall shrink, but I haven't made up my mind about the width.
Probably I'll try to use only positive numbers to save the space for the
sign.

> I think we hardly care with whom we're talking to, so I reduced
> people's names to three letters.

I rarely expunge someone, but use scores instead to flag whom not to
reply.  I may react differently depending on a mix of mood, daytime and
score to different names.  When I don't remember any more which incident
caused that score for that user, I drop it.  I just sometimes need a
break from someone.  So the name still is needed.

> I also like to see the article number in the local NNTP server --- it
> hints you quickly at which articles arrived in what order.  Dates are
> also important, but usually day and month is enough.

Article number ... nice idea!  I cannot imagine to shorten the date any
further, not even the constant leading 20, so maybe I can drop the time
part for the article sequence number.

I'll let that ferment for a while before I try the next changes.

-- 
I tried to forget [Henry Kissinger], but instead I forgot why I wanted
to forget [Henry Kissinger].  -- yeti, 20231130T031316

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