From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/6] Re: send-email: Add --delay for separating emails
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:45:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090409174547.GA15767@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc50904091027l4656a6adv6a72bad0a747cdc1@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:27:18PM -0500, Michael Witten wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:17, Nicolas Sebrecht
> <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> wrote:
> >
> > The --delay option may have an undesirable side effect. In case of
> > non-chained emails, unrelated mails could be insterted between patches
> > where *all* MUA would be affected. It's not only true for very high
> > volume message mailing-lists (million monkeys receiving...). FMPOV, it's
> > worse than all display issues we already know or have with the current
> > behaviour.
>
> But it's already impossible to protect against this scenario.
But we could forbid the use of --delay with non-chained emails, no? Or
at least, warn it should not be used.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 14:25 [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails Michael Witten
2009-04-08 14:35 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 8:14 ` Jeff King
2009-04-09 8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-09 17:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-09 17:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-09 19:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-09 19:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-09 20:59 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 21:02 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 16:17 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-04-09 17:27 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 17:38 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 17:45 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2009-04-09 18:43 ` Michael Witten
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2009-04-07 21:25 [PATCH RFC 1/6] " Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:51 ` Jeff King
2009-04-07 22:08 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-04-07 22:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-08 6:05 ` Jeff King
2009-04-08 6:03 ` Jeff King
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