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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.