* David Shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991211 01:57]:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:52:39AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> > David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 10 Dec 1999:
> > > Here is a patch against 1.1 that:
> > > 1) Makes ~l mean "mailing list" again.
> > > 2) Adds a new ~u pattern that means "subscribed list".
> >
> > Good idea. I didn't know this was "broken". :-)
> >
> > > The only thing about this I don't like is that ~u is not intuitive for
> > > "subscribed lists". I'd have used ~L, but it was taken..
> >
> > Agreed. But why use ~u? To me that means intuitively "unsubscribed
> > lists" (if I know it's a list pattern), completely the opposite.
>
> I was thinking of "sUbscribed" lists. :)
>
> If anyone has a better letter to use, it's easy enough to change it.
>
> David
>
You could make ~u *mean* unsubscribed lists, then !~u, or perhaps ~U,
would mean subscribed lists. Only *slightly* more intuitive. :-)
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