From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13424 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Moreno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [John Moreno ] Re: GNKSA and Gnus Date: Sun, 4 Jan 98 17:04:35 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199801042203.RAA18496@mail.interpath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152794 9247 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:26:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Russ Allbery" , , "Karl-Johan Noren" Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28867 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:20:16 -0800 Original-Received: from farabi.hpc.uh.edu (farabi.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05019 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:20:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@[10.1.1.1]) by farabi.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAN16207; Fri, 2 Jan 1998 00:13:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jan 1998 16:05:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA01564 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:05:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 29789 invoked by uid 504); 4 Jan 1998 22:04:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29786 invoked from network); 4 Jan 1998 22:04:54 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.interpath.net (199.72.1.13) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 1998 22:04:54 -0000 Original-Received: from [199.72.206.189] (roxboro-189.interpath.net [199.72.206.189]) by mail.interpath.net (8.8.8/v1.0) with SMTP id RAA18496; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:03:36 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0 x49, February 10, 1997 Original-To: "Kai Grossjohann" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13424 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13424 Kai Grossjohann wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 4 Jan 98, John Moreno said: > > John> It is a attempt to have software FACILITATE using the correct > John> etiquette. It means that software should provide a method > >I can see the advantage of having the option of marking a part of a >message then hitting the reply button then the user agent inserting >only that part as quoted text. Rather than the user always getting >everything at first and then having to cut away the rest. > >While this might be useful, I think it is not an important feature. It's considered important only in the sense of having features that encourage the user to do the right thing - it is NOT a requirement for getting the GNKSA. All of the 'Soft' requirement are features which while considered very good and useful and guides the user into correct behavior, may not be appropriate for all users or newsreaders. For instance if most of your time on the net was spent in alt.fan.warlord this wouldn't be a very good feature for you. -- John Moreno