[long] Re: Legal traps in open source *WAY* OT.
Nemo - earth native
nemo at nut.house.cx
Thu Oct 31 19:32:35 EST 2002
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 05:59:05PM +1100, Alex Satrapa did utter:
> >The level of confirmation required should be tailored to the level of
> >consequences and the frequency of operation.
>
> Deleting email and files is one of the most common things I do. Thus
> the delete operation itself should be reversible. On Mac OS X, when
> using the graphical interface, this is true. When using any of the
> other systems I commonly use, this is not true.
What do you consider "deleted"?
Using mutt, I quite happily and semi-blindly mark messages, threads, and
whole mailboxes as deleted - but the operation is quite easily
reversible - up to the point I sync changes back to the mailbox.
(usually only applied when exiting).
So are the messages deleted when I hit <d> to mark a message for deletion?
Or are they not really deleted till I hit <$> and sync the mailbox?
Do I need YET another step? (note that the mutt internal doco says
d delete-message delete the current entry
Not "tag message for future deletion" or any other such
half-way-solution measure. At this point, of course, it is undeletable.
:)
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