On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:23, Jeffrey Honig <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:17, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >Sorry, I forgot to mention that I tried that already... >> >> Sorry Jeff, I should have guessed that. I just thought maybe you weren't >> familiar with "git blame". >> >> >I'm going to peruse here to see if there is some explaination of why it's >> >that way and if the reason is still valid: >> > >> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/rand-mh/ >> >> I was curious about this as well, so I took a look. I see there's >> still call to m_foil() in post back in MH 5. So I am guessing the >> answer is, "we've always done it that way". I see that the READ-ME >> for MH 5 is dated ... sweet Jesus, January 19th, 1985. Suddenly I >> > > That's about when I started using MH and mh-e... Were you even born? ;-) > > >> feel young again! There are a few ChangeLog entries that imply >> that the m_foil() code was added by Marshall Rose, and he's still >> alive, isn't he? If people care, someone could always email him >> and ask him about it (note: I am NOT volunteering; I have nothing >> against Marshall Rose, I'm just not motivated enough to bother). >> >> > He's around. I'll e-mail him. >
Here's MTR's answer: ``when you run mh commands in a script, you want all the defaults to be what the man page says. when you run a command by hand, then you want your own defaults... /mtr'' This implies that post would only be run from a script, I'm not sure that's the case. Anyway, that gives us some insight into why it was done that way so we can make an informed decision on changing it. Thanks Jeff -- Jeffrey C. Honig <[email protected]> http://www.honig.net/jch GnuPG ID:14E29E13 <http://www.honig.net/jch/key.shtml>
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