From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:22:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83y6r1yy63.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hyp3by2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r5wvdw57.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <833a991sf6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246936983 28288 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2009 03:23:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 07 05:22:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MO1Gh-0002rI-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:22:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MO1Gh-0002FC-0E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MO1Gd-0002F7-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MO1Gc-0002Em-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42061 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MO1Gc-0002Ej-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:64748) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MO1GY-0006rr-Jl; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout1.012.net.il by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KME00H006A9ZW00@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:22:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.41]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KME00IRE6PW3S00@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:22:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112118 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:12:57 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> As has been pointed out, message-mode has more features than mail-mode. > > > > Yes. And Gnus has much more features than Rmail. So what? We all do > > agree that much more features means more complexity in setting things > > up. Why impose that on people who are happy with simple modes? > > How, exactly, is message-mode an "imposition" on "people who are happy > with simple modes"? If you insist on everyone switching to message-mode and making mail-mode obsolete, you are imposing message-mode on them. > Please, please, somebody who asserts that mail-mode is necessary, give > some concrete examples as to _why_. Maybe someone else will. This old fart simply doesn't want to learn a new mode unless it's absolutely necessary. Is this so hard to understand?