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 have

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

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

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 groups).

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]

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))

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, my