From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15267 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: resending selected messages. Bug or feature (I say bug...:-( ) Date: 03 Jun 1998 09:47:23 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154331 21175 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:52:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27332 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:53:14 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA11821 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 03:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAH07123; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:49:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 03 Jun 1998 02:48:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA07110 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:48:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 16902 invoked by uid 504); 3 Jun 1998 07:48:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16898 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1998 07:48:01 -0000 Original-Received: from viffer.oslo.metis.no (195.0.254.249) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 3 Jun 1998 07:47:59 -0000 Original-Received: (from sb@localhost) by viffer.oslo.metis.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA13403; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:47:23 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15267 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15267 Yesterday a colleague of mine was going to resend a message that had bounced to another address S D r Unfortunately some ~40 messages in the summary buffer of that mail group were selected (not with process marks, but *selected*), and Gnus did a resend of all of them to a poor unwitting receipient. Unfortunately I didn't discover that Gnus was the culprit until after I had tried to put the blame on some user friendly program like Outlook, so I feel a bit embarrased. I tested out that this "feature" is a part of 5.6.9 as well. I think this is a dangerous and confusing mis-feature and should be removed. Just my 15 øre... - Steinar