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[PATCH RFC 1/6] Re: send-email: Add --delay for separating emails

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NSNicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
Date
Apr 9, 2009, 16:17 UTC
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<20090409161756.GA12910@vidovic>
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:25:25AM -0500, Michael Witten wrote:
> This has nothing to do with what the receiver wants. This has everything
> to do with what the sender wants. I want my patch series to be in order
> even for wrongheaded receivers.

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. 

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht
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  1. Michael WittenApr 8, 2009
  2. Michael WittenApr 8, 2009
  3. Jeff KingApr 9, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2009
  5. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2009
  6. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2009
  8. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2009
  9. Michael WittenApr 9, 2009
  10. Michael WittenApr 9, 2009
  11. 1/6 Re: send-email: Add --delay for separating emailsNicolas Sebrecht, Apr 9, 2009
  12. Michael WittenApr 9, 2009
  13. Michael WittenApr 9, 2009
  14. 1/6 Re: send-email: Add --delay for separating emailsNicolas Sebrecht, Apr 9, 2009
  15. Michael WittenApr 9, 2009

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