On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 04:29:01AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]> 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.
No it wasn't, you misunderstood. >> >> 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. Then stop doing that. You keep saying it's "quite natural", and a "perfect fit". >> > 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 No it's not. What Gnus does is expiring messages in the English sense; that is; it's "ending" them, after a period of time. It is *not* using "expire" to exclude message from a working set, which is precisely what I asked for. > this is permanent expiration: > https://wiki.kolab.org/Automatically_purge_old_emails That is again ending the messages, it's not excluding them from a working set. > 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. Again ending, not excluding. > 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. One has to wonder if you are even bothering to answer the question. >> >> 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. Stop making useless statements, show me *EXACTLY* where you touched LimitUnread. >> >> [...] 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. Aha! your falsehood is shown here. You don't care about other's people opinions, because you've clearly made up your mind and no argument is going to dissuade you, even if it would dissuade others quite easily. > 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. Because they are not reading this thread. If I create a new thread asking for opinions about the naming, they might read and answer. But you don't care about their opinion, you've made up your mind. > as far as i'm concerned, you already crossed the line from > bikeshedding to trolling. think *hard* before your next reply. And as far as I'm concerned you have proved that you have your mind tightly shut about the name and would not consider any argument, nor the opinion of any other person. -- Felipe Contreras ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
