Re: More on the annotation format

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE]

John Prevost <prevost@maya.com> writes:

  >   2) The "Fixing Things" Case:
  >      I'm unconvinced of the need for this one, but it's something that
  >      people have mentioned as a real need to edit articles.  This case
  >      is for when you want to edit messages because they're "bad"
  >      somehow.  While this may be a nice thing to do for other people,
  >      I'd argue that once you've edited it, it's not the same message
  >      any more, and that it's better to just fix it on the fly.  (I,
  >      specifically, would never want this to happen, because I'd like
  >      to have some way to find out how it was broken in the first
  >      place.  I want to see the messages people have sent me, nothing
  >      else.)

Sometimes, the fixing cannot be done automatically.  I think `T ^' is
the case where this is most often needed.  Reparenting is a *very*
nifty feature of Gnus, and I suspect many people want to use it.

kai
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