Re: message-confirm-send

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On 2007-11-16 08:58, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> By that criteria, confirmation on C-c C-c, since it happens every time
>> without any recognition of common cases and attaches to a frequent
>> operation, is useless in much the same way that the rm -i alias is
>> useless.
>
> Perhaps a more useful solution to the "realize your mistake as soon as
> you hit send" problem (and this at least, is real) would be undoable
> mail.  Undoability often seems like a better method than confirmation.
>
> Since you can't actually undo mail sending, a more practical solution
> then would be a default queuing period for outgoing mail and easy-to-use
> tools to examine the queue and cancel pending messages.
>
> I suppose it's all a bit too much effort (needs MTA cooperation etc) for
> the gain though.  [and would probably cause tons of complaints about
> your "slow" mail system...]

That's a very good suggestion, I think.

I am not worried too much about hitting `C-c C-c' too fast, because most
of the time I spent in Gnus is in agentized sessions.  This means that
all outgoing Usenet posts and mail messages are queued by default, and I
can expire them from the `queue' group to undo the posting operation.

It doesn't happen very often that I want to expire a posted message, but
there have been at least 3-4 times the last year.  This means that it is
far from a very common thing to do, but still not something useless or
completely unworthy of consideration.

Maybe an agentized session is something which the original poster may
consider as an `improved mode of using Gnus'?

- Giorgos