Re: Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-10-26 Thread Aldo Valente
Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issue is still undecided. A long time ago I wrote up a patch that > transformed all zip codes into strings and did away with all the > datastructure cruft that is used to validate zip codes. Since the zip > codes were saved as plain text strings,

Re:misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread Paul Franklin
I took a totally different approach; I decided that I wanted someone in my bbdb if I replied to their email. So, as a gnus user, I did this: (defun pdf-bbdb/gnus-force-create () "Add bbdb entry for this message." (interactive) (let ((bbdb/news-auto-create-p t)) (bbdb/gnus-pop-up-bbdb-

Re:misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Well thanks everyone for the responses. Nix, I'll wait for your generically kludgy machinery to play with the additional bbdb fields, (I'll be eagerly monitoring gnu.emacs.sources :)) and I'll take a look at whether I can stand pressing : in gnus to manually add a record. However, something tell

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread David S. Goldberg
I don't disagree. It was just that given the original poster's complaint, it appeared to me that he was looking at bbdb as more of an address book. -- Dave Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ bbdb-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread Nix
[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 (:)

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread WJCarpenter
>> I have been using the bbdb for about two months now and I feel like >> I am using it wrong. I spend all my time tweaking the >> bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist for email addresses I don't want >> noticed, to protect them from being automatically added (I have >> that turned on for gnus mail gr

Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-10-26 Thread Alex Schroeder
A few days ago I decided to take modify an existing address display function. And I started wondering about the zip codes again. The issue is still undecided. A long time ago I wrote up a patch that transformed all zip codes into strings and did away with all the datastructure cruft that is use

bbdb-notice-hook buglet

2000-10-26 Thread Nix
The docstring for `bbdb-notice-hook' states , | Also note that bbdb-change-hook will NOT be called as a result of any | modifications you may make to the record inside this hook. ` As far as I can see, this is incorrect. It *should* be correct, because it is very annoying to have the cha

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread Nix
Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >the notice hook gets called a > lot --- e.g., when updating records, as well as when looking at them, No, it doesn't. Oops. (It even explicitly mentions that case in the docstring.) -- `Normally, we don't do people's

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread David S. Goldberg
> I have been using the bbdb for about two months now and I feel like I > am using it wrong. I spend all my time tweaking the > bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist for email addresses I don't want > noticed, to protect them from being automatically added (I have that > turned on for gnus mail groups)

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread Nix
Benjamin Rutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been using the bbdb for about two months now and I feel like I > am using it wrong. I spend all my time tweaking the > bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist for email addresses I don't want > noticed, to protect them from being automatically added (I

misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-26 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I have been using the bbdb for about two months now and I feel like I am using it wrong. I spend all my time tweaking the bbdb-ignore-some-messages-alist for email addresses I don't want noticed, to protect them from being automatically added (I have that turned on for gnus mail groups). I also