From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80098 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus doesn't remind me to add a subject anymore Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:34:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87k48rn6np.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ty85zrlj.fsf@jidanni.org> <871uv1u10s.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrctaxn2.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3eknqep.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317281742 24506 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2011 07:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:35:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28392@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 29 09:35:38 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 1R9B9e-0006rL-4b for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:35:38 +0200 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 1R9B94-000598-BW; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R9B91-00058v-MC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R9B8w-0005l8-Qb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R9B8t-0004x1-VM for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:34:51 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9B8t-0006d5-Sa for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:34:51 +0200 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:34:51 +0200 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:34:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80098 Archived-At: 29/09/11 02:27, Ted Zlatanov > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:17:53 +0200 Antoine Levitt 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 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 :) Yes, I meant to say that there's no real way for gnus to know whether I'm writing in english or in french for a particular message. It's a minor point. Also, some SMTP servers (e.g. smtp.gmail.com) add a (no subject) by themselves. "are you sure? y/n" looks fine to me. Presumably, hitting C-c C-c with no subject is either a mistake, in which case the user answers "n", gnus jumps point to the Subject line, and the user edits it, or it's a deliberate omission, in which case the user can answer "y". It's bikeshedding anyway.