Re: Forte Agent newsreader WARNING re deleting email attachments!

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From: Lostgallifreyan
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:15

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Peter A Forbes <diesel@easynet.co.uk> wrote in
news:aqnpn35kh93ajtlgqup74dmmkgfn45aolt@4ax.com: 

>>To those usenet people using Forte Agent as their news reader, or for
>>email, I wonder if you are aware of a really BAD feature....
> 
> Interesting up to a point, but why do anything relating deleting of
> files in the newsreader? surely it would have been better to do the
> mod's or deletions outside of the programme anyway?
> 

I think it's bad programming. Regardless of where the deletion is done, no 
program whose purpose is passing copies of files in a system it knows 
nothing about should EVER default to a write or delete capability. These 
things should only be possible with a prompt answered manually by the user.  
If an override exists, it should require that the user makes some effort to 
find it to enable it. In this case the correct practise would be to 
defauklt to deleting a LINK to the attached file, NOT the file itself. No 
exceptions. If I'm testing a new program and find it presuming to police 
any part of the system beyond its own function and place, it's out on its 
ear, immediately. I'd rather find something else than deal with something 
made by someone who fails to respect unknown host systems.

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!out02b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news-in-02.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!easynews-local!fe04.news.easynews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail

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