Jim Henderson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:11:32 -0700:
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:49:41 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > >> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:42 -0700, Jim Henderson wrote: >> >> >>> Actually, I wonder how many use the "Reply by e-mail" and "forward via >>> e-mail" options....I've never actually used them myself, since the >>> benefit in my usage is for everyone to share knowledge in the >>> newsgroups... >> >> There have been a couple times I have received e-mails that way, and >> they typically weren't beneficial to the group - would have been off >> topic to the thread and group. > > I guess a lot of that depends on the group in question. The groups I tend > to visit generally don't meet that criteria. > > But if it's only an occasionally used feature, it would seem to me that > it's a lower priority to "fix" than something else unless someone's > submitting a patch for it... I agree with both cases. As you see, I have "list replies preferred" in my sig, but there are times when an off-list/off-group reply is more appropriate, and having the ability to do so when using PAN, either on a conventional group, or thru gmane's list2news gateway (which I use for all my lists including this one), is functionality I'd definitely miss if it were absent. Still, as you say, it's rightly somewhat lower priority than to-newsgroup reply functionality. BTW, as someone else mentioned, the quote-forwarded behavior of PAN is REALLY broken. Forwarded shouldn't be quoted, unless as a separate menu choice. Code snippet breakage isn't a huge problem here, because when I forward, it's usually simply to my mail account, which is where I archive stuff I don't want to lose, and for that, quoting a code snippet isn't a big deal as I can unquote it if necessary later, but it's /still/ broken behavior, whether it's a serious inconvenience for me, or not. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel
