From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7055 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus no longer saving mail/posts in archive folder Date: 02 Jul 1996 08:36:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <199607011059.MAA27896@durin.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147421 5743 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:57:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA08514 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 00:39:06 -0700 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:40:10 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:40:09 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:59:28 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.23/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7055 Hallvard B Furuseth 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."