From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: gnus no longer saving mail/posts in archive folder
Date: 02 Jul 1996 08:36:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6d92fkvpa.fsf@eyesore.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:59:28 +0200 (MET DST)
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> I think the default should be to save -- or at least to save mail.
> Gnus' default behaviour should be the desirable way for a user to
> behave. Surely it's desirable that people learn to keep copies of their
> own correspondence?
>
> Anyway, this is a fairly common feature to want, and without reading to
> much doc it's easier to turn it off than to turn it on -- beacuse it
> if it's off, it must at least occur to you that it's *possible* to turn
> it on.
I agree totally, but this feature was the Number One Item Of Grand
Irritation with Gnus 5.2. All other complaints put together didn't
even begin to amount to the same number as the Gcc/"~/Mail/"
complaints.
One shouldn't annoy people too much, so it now defaults to "off".
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-02 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-30 6:47 Graham Murray
1996-06-30 14:23 ` Jack Vinson
1996-06-30 18:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-07-01 10:59 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-07-02 6:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-07-04 16:26 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-07-05 1:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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