From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: patches add variable `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news'
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:10:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluoff8bl9z.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yl3cwkbm4c.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Wed, 22 May 2002 01:52:19 -0700")
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Oops, I didn't read it carefully. What about making the default to on
>> then, and allow the user to never be queried about it in the future
>> ("Don't ask me again")? People who usually never R to usenet posts
>> might find the question useful, and leave it enabled, and other people
>> are only annoyed once.
>
> I think setting default behavior that discourages people from taking
> things to e-mail from Usenet discussions is a bad idea. There are
> different cultures in different groups, but more often than not this is
> something that people are *encouraged* to do unless they're pretty sure
> the whole group would be interested.
I agree. Ok, I added the original patch that defaults to not asking. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-22 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-21 2:41 Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-21 9:36 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 10:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-21 12:49 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 17:11 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-21 17:19 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-22 8:52 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-22 9:10 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-05-22 21:44 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-23 21:36 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-26 16:22 ` Raymond Scholz
2002-05-26 19:11 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-10-16 15:31 ` Raymond Scholz
2002-06-09 9:45 ` Thomas Skogestad
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