From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus doesn't remind me to add a subject anymore
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:27:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3eknqep.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrctaxn2.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:17:53 +0200 Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> wrote:
AL> 27/09/11 23:29, Ted Zlatanov
>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:18:48 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LMI> I don't think so. Sending subject-less mails is a valid thing to do.
>>
j> But not most of the time. The perfect place for "are you sure? y/n".
>>
>> I would allow "(NO SUBJECT)" as a third option instead of just y/n.
>> It's fairly standard.
AL> Don't forget that many people write mail in languages other than
AL> english.
It's a given that the string would be customizable three ways. This is
Gnus, after all :)
AL> I'd prefer a blank subject rather than "(NO SUBJECT)" or something
AL> like it anyway.
Yup. The idea is to be flexible and helpful. So maybe one of the
options should be "no, and never mention this again."
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-29 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-08 14:32 jidanni
2011-09-10 19:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-15 10:36 ` jidanni
2011-09-21 18:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-21 18:18 ` jidanni
2011-09-21 18:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27 21:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 6:28 ` James Cloos
2011-10-01 2:56 ` jidanni
2011-09-28 8:17 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-29 0:27 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-09-29 7:34 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-09-29 18:40 ` Adam Sjøgren
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