Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-11-05 Thread Nix
Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On October 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > that should be useful; does the bleeding-edge BBDB implement this yet? > > If it does I'll pull it down and rewrite the BBDB expiry and sorting > > code for it. > > I'd appreciate if you could code the bbdb-expi

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-11-05 Thread Ronan Waide
On October 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There is a mention in the TODO list of > >* Sorting records on alternate keys. `bbdb-sort-by' from Boris > Goldowsky. > I think this is sitting in my mailbox somewhere, along with a few other bits from Boris. > that should be useful; does t

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-28 Thread Nix
Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Benjamin Rutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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

Re: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-28 Thread Nix
Benjamin Rutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 I've done the refactoring of the ugly bits

RE: misusing the bbdb, frequent contacts

2000-10-27 Thread WJCarpenter
pf> I took a totally different approach; I decided that I wanted pf> someone in my bbdb if I replied to their email. So, as a gnus pf> user, I did this: "Me, too." If anyone is interested in seeing the equivalent for VM, drop me a line. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter)PGP 0x91865119 38 9

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

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