Re: drafts/queue and edited messages.

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> This has come up a few times but I've lost track of any resolution to
> it.
> 
> Using a semi-stock outgoing message archive and then several
> particular groups where I've set gcc in the group params.
> 
> If I happen to edit a message that has collected in
> ~/News/drafts/queue
> 
> The archived or gcc'ed copy is no longer a faithful copy.
> 
> Is this just unavoidable or can we have code that governs drafts/queue
> and knows where the message came from, its file number and whether
> it is gcc'ed?  If so write them back to the sending group overwriting
> the original.  Maybe the same with the global archive, if the message
> is not gcc'ed.
> 
> Maybe make it a requirement for this code that all groups involved be
> under that same backend.  Avoiding that major problem.

nndraft:queue is not designed for editing. nndraft:drafts is.

ShengHuo