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rmail error; bad message

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From: Rusty Wright
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 18:03
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In GNU Emacs 19.25.1 of Tue Jun 14 1994 on groan.Berkeley.EDU (decstation)

Somehow rmail got into some strange state; there was a file in my
directory named #tmp#0 that was about the same size as my RMAIL file.
When I tried to save my rmail buffer emacs came back with

	File RMAIL changed on disk.  Read the new version? (yes or no)

This message is NOT GOOD.  I'm not saying it's bad, but when you're in
a situation where you may lose some work, the message needs to be
absolutely clear about what's going to happen.  When this happened, I
went into a mild panic and I couldn't tell if this meant it was going
to read the file from disk and throw away my RMAIL buffer, or throw
away the disk file and use the RMAIL buffer.  The "Read the new
version?" is in no way explicitly clear about exactly what's going to
happen when I type yes.  I'm sure it's clear to the programmer, but
not to us bonehead users.  Please rephrase this message so that people
won't inadvertently lose work.  Thanks.
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From: rusty@groan.berkeley.edu (Rusty Wright)
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Subject: rmail error; bad message
Date: 22 Aug 1994 14:03:42 -0400
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