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Re: Default of send-mail-function
From: |
Manoj Srivastava |
Subject: |
Re: Default of send-mail-function |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:01:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:05:49 +0200, Reiner Steib
<address@hidden> said:
> One might argue that this is better then relying on
> /usr/sbin/sendmail. I'd tend to agree.
It depends. On most of my machines where I use emacs, and even
resting those on which I use gnus, mail is always configured in order
for various system processes to send reports out (like cron). Most of
these machines I do not have an http client installed, since my usage
pattern differs.
If I may put in my 2 cents as a user, I am not thrilled at what
I perceive to be a current trend (in Debian, and now in emacs) to
favour novice users at the expense of loyal old timers, and often the
response given to me in Debian is that the tyranny of numbers leads to
setting defaults that are less useful to people not coming into the
fold from windows. The CUA and tmm discussions recently seem to
reinforce this perception.
While I have been using Emacs as my preferred editor since 1987,
I am not a computer science graduate, nor have I any formal training in
computers or lisp, so the argument that "expert" user can diagnose and
fix behaviors they do not like fails to convince me; my reaction to the
functionp/symbolp change was to remove developmental software I was
helping to test.
Sorry for the rant. I'll go back to lurking silently now.
manoj
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- Re: Default of send-mail-function, (continued)
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function (was: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q), Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/07
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Reiner Steib, 2008/04/07
- Re: Default of send-mail-function, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/08
- Re: Default of send-mail-function,
Manoj Srivastava <=
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/08
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/04/07
- Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/05
Re: 23.0.60; Feature request: Menu item "load init files" after -q/-Q, Chong Yidong, 2008/04/07