Re: hashcash

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> After using hashcash on systems with and without the hashcash binary,
> I think the sending error (when hashcash is missing) should be changed
> to a warning and sit-for 1.

But why did you enable hashcash generation, if you don't have the
binary?  If you are using the same .emacs on several systems, some
with a hashcash binary, and some without, it seems the proper .emacs
setting would be:

(setq message-generate-hashcash (executable-find "hashcash"))

> The user can't override the error otherwise to send mail, and has to
> manually set hashcash-path to nil.

I'm not sure I agree with this view.  It seems the user already
overrode the default behavior when she request hashcash in the first
place.  So she could revert to the default behavior by disabling it:

M-x set-variable RET message-generate-hashcash RET nil RET

I think this is comparable to other features: User requests PGP, but
PGP doesn't exist => error.  User requests spell check, aspell doesn't
exist => error.  User attaches a file, but file doesn't exist when
message is sent => error.  I feel that replacing all these errors,
including the hashcash one, with a warning would be confusing.

But if you think your view is more user friendly, then change it.

Thanks.