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From: Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: default for gnus-message-replyencrypt is wrong
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:14:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <smuod36fjhg.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu> (raw)

I have long been wishing that replies to decrypted messages were
automatically marked for encryption.  I complained about this to someone
in private mail, and got pointed at gnus-message-replyencrypt.  That's
great, but it has the wrong default :-)

I feel it's rude to disclose content that someone else encrypted even
indirectly, and it's completely unacceptable to quote encrypted mail in
the clear.  Thus, I think this variable should be enabled by default.

Arguably, quoting message text from a decrypted message should be
disabled if the reply is not encrypted, but it's so easy to work around
this that such a feature would merely be invasive/annoying.

(My papers are not in order, but 't' is not a creative expression. :-)
If this would be accepted, I can provide doc change and changelog.


Index: lisp/gnus-msg.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-msg.el,v
retrieving revision 7.69
diff -u -p -r7.69 gnus-msg.el
--- lisp/gnus-msg.el	8 Aug 2008 11:10:55 -0000	7.69
+++ lisp/gnus-msg.el	2 Sep 2008 19:04:22 -0000
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ See also the `mml-default-sign-method' v
   :type 'boolean)
 
 (defcustom gnus-message-replyencrypt
-  nil
+  t
   "Automatically encrypt replies to encrypted messages.
 See also the `mml-default-encrypt-method' variable."
   :group 'gnus-message



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