Re: Selective quoting (was: Re: GNKSA and Gnus)

[John Moreno <phenix@interpath.com>]

Per Abrahamsen wrote:

>
>Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>> 
>> > This is something Gravity does, and in general a good idea.  It migth
>> > make less sense for Gnus.  However, I think it would be nice if quoting
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>> I still don't think this idea makes any sense.  But YMMV.
>
>Think of the typical new user with a windows based newsreader.  Would
>you rather have that 
>
>1) He had to select which parts of the article to quote, or
>2) he had to select which parts of the article not to quote?
>
>I'd prefer #1, since I believe that having to make an explicit
>decision to quote some text would encourage him to only quote the
>relevant parts of the message.  
>
>Now Gnus is different because it is part of Emacs, and the commands
>must make sense within that frameworks, and Gnus users are in average
>more experienced than, say, users of MS Internet News.  Thus, you
>don't see as many beginner-errors with Gnus, and adding extra code to
>prevent them makes less sense in that context.

That's the idea, and that's why it's a SHOULD not a MUST.  But of course 
it's not quite that clear since even with the SHOULD it's only : SHOULD 
have a method of doing 1.  The user isn't to be required to use the 
method.

-- 
John Moreno