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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: unable to abort replies
Message-ID: <949@opus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 02:49:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 02:49:46 1984
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> >Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to add another test like
> >cancelling the reply if the size of the edited file has not grown after the
> >editing.  This would also be robust against a person starting to edit a reply
> >but deciding against it after having started it.
> 
> How about a question for the human to answer, after the exit from the
> editor, like "Do you really, really want to send this?" or something.  
> Seems like that would be easy to implement.  I guess rn has this feature.

Ouch!  How about not asking the user if he really wants to do what he just
did?  (It's bad enough when people ask stupid questions, but when machines
start doing it...:-)  'Twould be better to get the test for "modified"
correct than to ask the user to do it.  And, by the way, the basis for
the program checking further should be "file is the same size", not "file
has not grown"!  Some people are actually thoughtful enough to pare down
the base note before adding the followup.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.