Re: Sending attachments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: Miles Bader <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:13:51 -0400
> 
> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Seeing that we have already rcirc vs. erc, rmail vs. gnus vs. vm
> > vs. mh (which each has their own mail sending mode!), viper
> > vs. vi-mode vs. vile; a small _derived_ mode can't be the problem.
> > You already have people who prefer it, and are more than happy to fix
> > any bugs it has.  Maintaince is clear not the issue here.
> 
> Apart from Miles' reply to this (with which I fully agree), it should be
> noted that rcirc/erc/gnus/mh have dedicated maintainers, while mail-mode
> is maintained in-tree.

For some value of ``maintained''.  Cursory scan of the logs shows that
it gets one simple change every 3 months or so, sometimes even less
(modulo doc fixes).  So much for a ``burden''.