Re: Congratulations, Larsi

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

On Nov 17, 1998, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> wrote:

> Jonas Luster <jonas@newsbone.org> writes:
>> Gnus p0.44 violates `soft' GNKSA requirements (SHOULDs)
>> in the following way:
>> 10e  Does not let the user indicate which part to followup to

> I believe `C-c C-v' qualifies.  I used it on this message.

I don't think so.  Suppose you've received a digest with several
messages as attachments, and you want to followup to one of the
attached messages, not to the full message.

Anyway, I think gnus can already do that, if you C-d the digest and
followup to some of the individual messages.

>> 16b  Does not refuse posting an empty article
>> 16d  Does not refuse to post quoted text only
>> 16f  Does not try to prevent posting multiple copies entirely

> These are bogus "SHOULDs" anyhow -- I wouldn't want Gnus to do these
> things.  (I often post "empty" notes to our internal newsgroups
> jprc.support.* whose entire [still very useful] content is in the
> Subject -- status messages about things that have been fixed, changed,
> or are otherwise in flux.)

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.  Group parameters could also be used to
selectively enable/disable this.

-- 
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