Re: [RFC] nnmbox and first-time users

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

>     > In fact I think that slowly the time might have come to change a
>     > lot of important variables in an incompatible manner. That will
>     > at least show the users that something is wrong, and so they can
>     > correct it.
>
> If that is done this change should be documented in a VERY explicit
> manner accompanied by a good "transition description".

Yes.  The Gnus startup code should have some facility to detect the
situation, alert the user to it, and DTRT.

Hm.  Coming to think of it, maybe it is better not to change the
default directories, but rather to have Gnus perform some sanity
checks.

So when Gnus discovers that the user has two servers pointing to the
same directory, Gnus would then barf.

Ah.  We discussed about this a while ago.  Sorry, I completely
forgot.  Yes, I think the sanity check approach is much better.

kai
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