From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80084 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: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:17:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87wrctaxn2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ty85zrlj.fsf@jidanni.org> <871uv1u10s.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317197937 30943 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2011 08:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:18:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28378@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 28 10:18:53 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 1R8pLw-0004Ac-KG for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:18:52 +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 1R8pLS-0007Eo-RU; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:18:22 -0500 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 1R8pLR-0007Ef-N7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:18:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R8pLM-0002dY-Qe for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:18:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R8pLJ-000345-VX for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:18:13 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8pLI-0003zG-Po for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:18:12 +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 ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:18:12 +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 ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:18:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 14 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/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80084 Archived-At: 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. Don't forget that many people write mail in languages other than english. I'd prefer a blank subject rather than "(NO SUBJECT)" or something like it anyway.