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Alain Delmotte esperanto at swing.be
Mon Nov 7 11:33:59 CET 2011


Hi,

I did test and there is no reaction (no message editor opened).
I also tested version 943 and 932 with the same result; so I 
suppose it is a problem with my machine (under Windows 7)

Regrads

Alain

Le 7/11/2011 09:51, Stefan Löffler a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 2011-11-07 03:08, Paul A Norman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it a feature or bug that 0.5 943
>>
>>      Menu>  Help/ Email to maling list
>>
>> no longer includes in an email, a subject line, nor incorporates in
>> the body the version and Os information?
>
> No subject line is a feature - because we got many messages where people
> didn't bother to alter the predefined subject line (why should they,
> anyway), which makes it impossible to see at a glance what a message is
> about (and consequently makes it tedious to find a message again later).
> Therefore, the subject line was removed (if people still don't enter a
> meaningful subject, the situation is the same, but if they do, it is
> greatly improved).
>
> But email and OS information should still be present, so that is a bug.
> In fact, we even added some instructions what to specify and how to do
> it (e.g., to add a subject line ;)).
>
> There was a minor problem in the code that apparently was handled
> gracefully on my Linux machine. That was corrected in r944 - could you
> please test if this solved the issue on Windows?
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>




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