From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31269 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Message forwarding annoyance and message-forward-show-mml Date: 02 Jun 2000 13:50:13 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167703 13079 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BB9D051E for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:52:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAC05751; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:51:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:50:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA18672 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:49:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FF32D051E for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:50:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 29215 invoked by uid 50); 2 Jun 2000 20:50:14 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "02 Jun 2000 09:50:13 +0200" Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31269 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31269 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > So I press `S o m' to forward a relatively complex message. What do I > get? A bunch of MML! No, Virginia, I almost never want Gnus to muck > with the original message -- for one because it's so easy to fuck up and > send garbage. But even when it doesn't fuck up, I resent the idea of > destructuring a forwarded message to MML only to re-assemble it again > two seconds later without intermediate changes. In most cases, I don't > want to edit the messages I forward. For what it's worth, I really like seeing the forwarded message in MML and do edit it somewhat regularly, so if this is changed, an option to keep the current behavior would be nice. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)