From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Chetan Pandya <pandyacus@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:32:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ozgc7fc.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <785436.96522.qm@web83207.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Chetan Pandya writes:
> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Chetan Pandya wrote:
>
> >> One thing I don't like about this command is the potential for
> >> misuse - unless this is one of the intended uses.
> >> The problem is that the recipient of the message may have no
> >> idea that the message is not really received from what it claims
> >> to be,
That is in fact the intent of the Resent-* headers. Personally, I
like the intuition that "the RESEND command uses RESENT-* headers to
avoid looking like a FORWARD".
Obviously you and Richard have a different intuition, based on the
fact that you don't use resend for its designed purpose, but rather
because it saves keystrokes compared to forward (in his case, anyway).
> Like other commands that may be confusing to users, it could be
> disabled by default, unless explicitly enabled by the user.
I think it would be better to enhance the forward command (or split it
into "forward" and "quick-forward") so that there is less temptation
to use the resend command as a low- effort forward. You could remove
the key-binding for resend; that should be sufficient discouragement.
> Irrespective of what is done on the send side, it might make sense
> to show resent-from, especially if it is different from from field.
Resent-From is *almost always* different from From. If it is expected
to be of interest to the recipient, then the sender should not be
using resend in the first place; they should use forward. On the
downside of your suggestion, do you really want to see that
<mailman-bounces+chetan-pandya@gnu.org> resent the post for every
single post to emacs-devel that you receive? That's what your
suggestion would cause.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-31 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 16:30 Change in rmail-reply Richard M Stallman
2009-01-26 17:39 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-27 6:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 6:44 ` Don Armstrong
2009-01-27 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-27 22:58 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 23:22 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-01-29 14:32 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-29 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-29 16:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-30 7:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-30 8:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-30 23:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 0:50 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31 1:01 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31 3:16 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-31 3:53 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31 6:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-01-31 9:52 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-02-01 6:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 3:18 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-31 3:31 ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-01 6:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-27 23:35 ` Don Armstrong
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