[dev] resuming messages

Jon Parise jon@csh.rit.edu
Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:56:35 -0500


On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:45:55AM -0500, Michael Bull wrote:

> I'll look at it as a local patch, then -- I'm all for removing options 
> where they aren't useful for the masses.  If for some reason someone really 
> wanted to "resume" a message they didn't write, they'd likely just forward 
> it; that's what our people do with the "fat" desktop clients.     In 99% of 
> all cases, I doubt resuming a message someone sent you that was foldered is 
> something people will want to do -- I can see people clicking on it trying 
> to resume a message they know they /did/ postpone, but forgot where it 
> is... or other such errors.

I agree with this logic.
 
> Just $0.02 -- If I patch it up, I'll make it an option and you all can 
> decide if it's worth having.  :)

I found my old patch so I just committed it.  I added a new option
($conf['user']['allow_resume_all']) to control the behavior.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member