Re: Gnus mail splitting / Gmane / gnu.emacs.help / mailing list

[Nuno Silva]

On 2018-11-02, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Now that one is disencouraged to use the
> newsgroup (gnu.emacs.help) because of the
> threading issue, and newcomers cannot use Gmane
> (gmane.emacs.help) because of the
> authentication issue, here is how one can do it
> with Gnus to get away with at least half the
> self-respect intact.
>
> First add an nnml group. Here, I called it
> mail.geh. ("geh" for gnu.emacs.help, no doubt.)
>
> Then add this to split mail from the mailing
> list to that group:
>
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
>       '(
>         ("mail.geh" "\\(From\\|To\\|Cc\\):.*help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org")
>         ;; add more here the same way if need be
>         ("mail.misc"      "")
>       ))
>
> Maybe you would like to killfile, or rather
> downscore which is recommended and much better,
> maybe you'd like to do that to yourself so you
> don't see your own posts.
>
> You can still bring them up by entering the
> group and do `gnus-summary-insert-old-articles'
> (I think the original key for that is `/ o';
> I have it just `o') which ignores the scoring.
>
> In a way that doesn't make sense but it can
> nevertheless be used in this particular
> situation. There are other ways to do it,
> as well.

I'd check whether Gnus can be slightly modified or configured to send
replies to specific newsgroups by e-mail instead. I have never done
something like this myself, but it might be possible.

-- 
Nuno Silva