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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Sending attachments
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:35:04 -0400
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Nobody (atleast I do not) has no issues with setting mail-user-agent
to message-user-agent; since that allows people who prefer mail-mode
to continue to use it.  And can be easily reverted at a later date.

But your insistance to remove a perfectly usable mode that people
actually prefer, and wish to continue to use _and_ maintain, is not
productive.


There are far more important things to work on in Emacs.  Org mode has
many modes that already exist in Emacs which are not very popular.  I
am in particular thinking of table-mode and footnote-mode, which are
very useful modes, but Org mode has similar modes that are better.