From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76008 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-agent-prompt-send-queue Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:28:32 +0000 Message-ID: <8739ofs0rj.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <8abp365s2e.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87ipxeotmr.fsf@gnus.org> <87hbcwad7a.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296085074 9130 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 23:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:37:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24360@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 27 00:37:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiEvt-0001hR-M1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:37:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiEvl-0005xE-AI; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:37:41 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiEn8-0005ue-Kr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:28:46 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiEn4-0006St-GY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:28:46 -0600 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiEn1-0004F5-Ar for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:28:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 79-67-236-99.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([79.67.236.99] helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiEmv-0000G7-Et for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:28:33 +0000 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR In-Reply-To: <87hbcwad7a.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:24:57 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76008 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> Fair enough, and easily done, but Whats the use case for the existing >> variable? > > Some people use the Agent offline thing as a real "offline" thing. That > is, when they don't have a connection. However, most people use the > Agent just as a dynamic cache, and the sending queue as a "eek, I didn't > mean to send that email, let me delete it" thing. In the latter case > being "strict" about the unpluggedness when sending was just too annoying. But isn't that the whole point of gnus-delay-article... But, then again, I'm one of those quaint real offline users ;-) -- Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)