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From: Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: patches add variable `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news'
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:44:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wc3u1ozuac8.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluoff8bl9z.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>
>>> Oops, I didn't read it carefully.  What about making the default to on
>>> then, and allow the user to never be queried about it in the future
>>> ("Don't ask me again")?  People who usually never R to usenet posts
>>> might find the question useful, and leave it enabled, and other people
>>> are only annoyed once.
>>
>> I think setting default behavior that discourages people from taking
>> things to e-mail from Usenet discussions is a bad idea.  There are
>> different cultures in different groups, but more often than not this is
>> something that people are *encouraged* to do unless they're pretty sure
>> the whole group would be interested.
>
> I agree. Ok, I added the original patch that defaults to not asking.  Thanks.

I agree also, now I can stop working on that y/n/! confirm feature.
:-)  Thanks for adding the patch.
-- 
Benjamin



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-22 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-21  2:41 Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-21  9:36 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 10:46   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-21 12:49     ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-21 17:11       ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-21 17:19         ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-22  8:52       ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-22  9:10         ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-22 21:44           ` Benjamin Rutt [this message]
2002-05-23 21:36           ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-05-26 16:22           ` Raymond Scholz
2002-05-26 19:11             ` Simon Josefsson
2002-10-16 15:31               ` Raymond Scholz
2002-06-09  9:45 ` Thomas Skogestad

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