From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18831 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Congratulations, Larsi Date: 18 Nov 1998 01:20:34 -0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157290 8353 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:41:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA02769 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:14:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB03416; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:04:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:04:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA26201 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:04:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from grande.dcc.unicamp.br (grande.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.1.11]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA02451 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:04:09 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.11]) by grande.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA13113 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:20:38 -0200 (EDT) Original-Received: from araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br (araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.14]) by amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA27168 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:20:38 -0200 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "18 Nov 1998 01:54:06 +0100" Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070048 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.48) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18831 On Nov 17, 1998, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Alexandre Oliva 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