On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 04:29:01AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <o...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 02:35:44PM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: > You said this: > > >> >> >> > - i didn't want to change the default behavior > > That's a red herring. The default behavior wouldn't change either way. > your original complaint was about defaulting to preserving unread messages. given that, i don't see how your last statement could make any sense.
> >> What does that even mean? [...] > >> > > are you actually lacking the language background, or are you just being > > contrarian for the sake of it? > > Neither, it doesn't make any sense. > making assertions doesn't get you anywhere. > > i for one find the association quite natural, and clearly i'm not > > alone with that - the term is fairly established in this context. > > Show me the evidence. Show me one instance where expire is used to > refer to exclude something from a working set. > this is *precisely* what mbsync does: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Expiring-Mail.html this is permanent expiration: https://wiki.kolab.org/Automatically_purge_old_emails and outlook/exchange supports james-bond-style this-message-will-destroy-itself-in-5-4-3... mails, which is yet another step away, but by far not a stretch. took me five minutes of googling. one has to wonder whether you are just trying to be a PITA, or genuinely think that your opinion is infallible. > >> And at no point in time are you even touching LimitUnread. > >> > > actually, i did. right in the previous message. > > No, you didn't. > i wonder how you are reconciling this statement with reality, given that it can be trivially shown to be false. > >> [...] you made your mind and you are simply defending what you > >> already decided and no argument is going to change your mind. > >> > > or maybe your arguments just aren't that convincing. ;) > > If that was the case you wouldn't have any problem with a vote. > i'm not sure why you think that democratic principles are desirable (hint: this is a meritocracy) or practical (how to determine a representative constituency?) in this situation. also, did you notice that nobody else even bothered to express an opinion *at all*? they are laughing and/or shaking their heads in disbelief. as far as i'm concerned, you already crossed the line from bikeshedding to trolling. think *hard* before your next reply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
