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From: matt_jones@blueyonder.co.uk (Matt N. Jones)
Subject: Re: How to redefine keys?
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:19:08 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u0o6pbqm.fsf@siteswap.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psyurcm0.fsf@nowhere.org>

Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:

> An alternative approach - putting this in your .gnus will make Gnus
> check whether you _really_ want to send an e-mail in reply instead of
> following up
>
> ;; prompt for mail replies to newsgroups!!!!!
> (defadvice gnus-summary-reply (around reply-in-news activate)
>    (interactive)
>    (when (or (not (gnus-news-group-p gnus-newsgroup-name))
>              (y-or-n-p "REALLY reply with a personal mail? "))
>      ad-do-it))

That's fantastic. I've been having exactly the same problem. I've lost
count of the number of times I've accidentally replied with a personal email
when I should have followed up to a newsgroup. 

Thanks very much.

Matt


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-21  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-20 21:36 Colin Paul Adams
2005-02-20 23:10 ` Jesper Harder
2005-02-21  0:16 ` Glyn Millington
2005-02-21  8:19   ` Matt N. Jones [this message]
     [not found]   ` <cvc5sn$kgs$1@news.sap-ag.de>
2005-02-21 11:12     ` Glyn Millington

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