[long] Re: Legal traps in open source *WAY* OT.

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Nemo" == Nemo  <- earth native <nemo=bDtiNuezB2nWOr0BM2OLFA at public.gmane.org>> writes:

  >> 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.

  Nemo> What do you consider "deleted"?

  Nemo> Using mutt, I quite happily and semi-blindly mark messages,
  Nemo> threads, and whole mailboxes as deleted - but the operation is
  Nemo> quite easily reversible - up to the point I sync changes back
  Nemo> to the mailbox.  (usually only applied when exiting).

GNUS has an interesting approach to this problem.  I don't delete
mail, I expire it.  GNUS comes along some time later (in my case,
three days) are deletes mail that I have marked as "expirable".

Ben