Re: [PING] Please explain: wl-summary-resend-use-cache

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:11:12 -0800,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
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> At Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:19:57 -0500,
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > Even if you already have it right there in your cache?  If so, I can't
> > understand the reason for it.  That would be like fetching from the
> > server on replying to a message that you're currently viewing.
> 
> Yes. I don’t know it does this either.

If it doesn't fetch from the server when it's already in the
cache, there's almost no point in saying anything at all about it, and
that language is just an opportunity to confuse or misinform.  I'll
put it on my list of doc fixes.

> > Thanks for your detailed replies, Erik.  Is it normal that the WL
> > authors (who surely know the correct answers to such questions) don't
> > reply and instead leave us guessing?
> 
> Yes, the original WL authors are not very active on the list. I
> presume they are busy with other things.
> 
> I think that it would be a good thing for community members to ensure
> that people coming to WL get the latest patches for their versions of
> FLIM, SEMI, ELMO, and WL. It would also be nice to have good
> information on Emacswiki, because the existing official information
> and code is sometimes out of date or Japanese only.

Argh, I can't win :(

Gnus has a lousy IMAP implementation and is too tortured for me to
understand well, WL is not very well-supported (for non-japanese
speakers at least) and seems to be having trouble with large NNTP
groups, etc., etc.

I wish I knew how to improve the situation.

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