From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68663 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:15:44 +0300 Message-ID: <831vot1sb3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0922916E-B9DD-41C4-8A3D-8550CDD56B62@mit.edu> <83r5ww1m3k.fsf@gnu.org> <871vovsvi8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83ljn324xd.fsf@gnu.org> <87skhbrdz3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83hbxr0zc6.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbxqrha4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83d48e1oz6.fsf@gnu.org> <87d48d6grk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246911364 2126 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2009 20:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, miles@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 06 22:15:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNubT-0006oe-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:15:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNubS-0003nr-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNubO-0003ng-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNubN-0003nI-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51605 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNubN-0003nF-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:53775) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNubJ-0005Ab-Nw; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KMD00K00MVGTR00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:15:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.41]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KMD00I9YMY7DM40@i-mtaout7.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:15:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87d48d6grk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112105 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68663 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: Miles Bader , eliz@gnu.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, > yamaoka@jpl.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:13:51 -0400 > > "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > > > Seeing that we have already rcirc vs. erc, rmail vs. gnus vs. vm > > vs. mh (which each has their own mail sending mode!), viper > > vs. vi-mode vs. vile; a small _derived_ mode can't be the problem. > > You already have people who prefer it, and are more than happy to fix > > any bugs it has. Maintaince is clear not the issue here. > > Apart from Miles' reply to this (with which I fully agree), it should be > noted that rcirc/erc/gnus/mh have dedicated maintainers, while mail-mode > is maintained in-tree. For some value of ``maintained''. Cursory scan of the logs shows that it gets one simple change every 3 months or so, sometimes even less (modulo doc fixes). So much for a ``burden''.