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Re: master 7725fbc: Remove the Date header from message-draft-headers


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: master 7725fbc: Remove the Date header from message-draft-headers
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:41:35 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:12:26 -0700
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> > Oh, and one other thing -- perhaps this should be mentioned in NEWS?
>> 
>> I've never really known what's NEWS-worthy and what isn't. My gut tells
>> me that changing an option's default -- when the new value doesn't
>> represent an addition or removal of features -- isn't worth it.
>
> My rule is: if there's a doubt, then there's no doubt, and the change
> should be in NEWS.  The reason is simple: there are no downsides to
> putting unimportant stuff there, but users do get annoyed by changes
> that aren't called out there.  So, a net win.

Sounds like a fine rule! I'll put it in now.



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