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On Mon, 20 May 2002, Benjamin Rutt wrote:

> Attached are two patches against today's CVS.  They implement a
> feature that lets a user enable an option which will require
> confirmation before allowing a mail reply to a usenet article.  This
> will help users catch their mistake when they accidently press 'R' to
> respond to a usenet article when they really meant to press 'F'.

This is likely to be annoying.  Can we perhaps use this case to test 
implementing a "Do not ask me again" option?  Bound to ! perhaps?  
Answering ! to the query would customize-save the variable to nil so the 
user won't see the query again.  What do people think?