On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:06:15 +, BeartoothHOS wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:20:39 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> [...]
>> /me tries to stay calm.
>>
>> Please. Do. Not. Silently. Delete. My. Data.
>>
>> EVER.
>
> I wouldn't know a line of code if it bit me. If someone who does
On 06/26/11 06:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Duncan wrote:
This is what I consider to be acceptable behaviour:
(1) Auto-save is independent from manual drafts, and the locations
should be different. Auto-save files can have arbitrary file names,
manual save drafts must be given human readable na
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:20:39 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> /me tries to stay calm.
>
> Please. Do. Not. Silently. Delete. My. Data.
>
> EVER.
I wouldn't know a line of code if it bit me. If someone who does
will do all that, I'll applaud vigorously.
Btw, I also
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(5) If the user sends the post, Pan should save the post in a Sent Posts
location, then delete the auto-save file. Pan may choose to move the
auto-save file to Sent Posts instead.)
(6) Sent posts should not be treated as downloaded news posts. It is a
record of what yo
Steven D'Aprano posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:20:39 +1000 as excerpted:
>> I suppose one way around that would be a simple post-slot based ring-
>> scheme. Choose some arbitrary number of auto-save messages, and when
>> pan reaches that limit, it simply deletes the oldest to make room for
>> the
Duncan wrote:
In my case, the provider would accept posts to text groups then silently
drop them if they were over, IIRC, 200 lines. Other providers might drop
them for other reasons.
Are we only going to protect the user from local-machine disaster and
assume that once the server says it t
Dan C posted on Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:01:40 + as excerpted:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:50:28 +, Graham P Davis wrote:
>
>> Had concocted a nice long post but ended the session a little while
>> later and lost it. Any chance of a draft folder somewhere in the future
>> so that these accidents
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:50:28 +, Graham P Davis wrote:
> Had concocted a nice long post but ended the session a little while
> later and lost it. Any chance of a draft folder somewhere in the future
> so that these accidents can be avoided?
It would appear that I have one located at ~/.pan2/ar
Had concocted a nice long post but ended the session a little while later
and lost it. Any chance of a draft folder somewhere in the future so that
these accidents can be avoided?
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