Re: Congratulations, Larsi

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>]

On Nov 17, 1998, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

>> Although gnus currently provides an option for the user to do that, it 
>> might be nice if it would only do so if a certain variable (custom?)
>> was set.  If such variable is not enabled, gnus would just refuse to
>> post such messages, possibly indicating a section of the manual in
>> order to allow such behavior.

> I don't see any reason to disallow posting, say, empty messages.  The
> user is given a warning that it's probably not a good idea to do so,
> but there are legitimate reasons to post empty messages.

You know, sometimes we just get used to warning messages, and our
fingers learn how to skip them faster than our brains can tell them
not to...

If we could have a finer control on which groups can accept empty
postings (say, (allow-empty-postings nil|t|'ask)), we'd hopefully be
able to have no warnings in the groups we usually post empty messages
to, confirmed empty postings on others, and absolutely no empty
messages on those that wouldn't tolerate that.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org.au}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil