🚀 go-pugleaf

Oliver Schoett writes:
Kyle> Maybe the attribute should be "exposed" instead of "read".
Kyle> That's generally what VM means by "read".  It can't really know
Kyle> wheyther you've read the message of course.

> That's one of my pet peeves with vm and gnus as compared to rn.  They
> mark a message read when it is first exposed.  But this is simply
> wrong, as I have not yet read it (for example, I might get
> interrupted).  I prefer the approach of rn, where an article is marked
> 'read' upon leaving it with a command whose meaning is "I've read this
> one, go to the next one".

Hear, Hear!  Thanks for not giving up at the phrase "of course" .
So there is a natural way of telling vm that a message has been read.

The peeve referred to is amplified when you consider previewing, where
you haven't even been "exposed" to the entire message (and you have very
little indication of that).

- Len Weisberg - weisberg@corp.hp.com - HP - Palo Alto Info Tech Center