Re: Improving Gnus speed

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>:
>
>> The intended audiences.
>
>> Frequently I spot that I am accidentally emailing rather than posting a
>> reply.
>
> Hm... that has never happened to me.  The other way around: sending an
> intended private reply to a mailing list _has_ happened.
>
> What I do then is to set
>  (broken-reply-to . t)
> in the group parameters of the nnimap group represting the mailing
> list...

I need to look that up.

>
>> Obviously I can only speak for myself but one of the first things
>> people do/used to do is turn on the "really post" prompt on when it
>> was an nntp post since its going public.
>
> I've sometimes thought that it would have been nice to have a posting
> delay, where I could go in, say within 5 minutes and kill a posting.
>
> But after a while, I figured that the best thing to do was to just live
> with my malposts.  I've got expiry turned on when posting to USENEt, so
> it means that google groups will stop showing them after a couple of
> weeks time.
>

Why would you do that? If you post to usenet then I think it should stay
for google completeness in threads.

But for me the bottom line is that both mentally and physically usenet
and mail are two different entities and while I like the common features
Gnus provides I still want that difference to be apparent to me. There
are a few rough edges in Gnus where "sending" and "posting" are
used. They mean different things and I like that they do.