RE: C-c C-c in mail window sends mail without asking forconfirmation

[Drew Adams]

    > The point was that you don't get another confirmation
    > message. You hit C-c C-c, and you are asked for confirmation.
    > You say "no". You hit C-c C-c again, but instead of asking you
    > again, as you say, "it tries to send the message".
    > That seems link a bug to me. It shouldn't try to send a
    > message unless you answer "yes".

    I think you misunderstand the purpose of the confirmation

Yes, I see that, based on your reply, below.

    (or maybe I
    misunderstand it).  I think it specifically asks you to confirm that
    you want to send the bug report TO THE EMACS MAINTAINERS.

Yes, but answering "do you want to go to the store now?" with "no" does not
imply that you want to go later, or that you want to go to the post office
now, or that you will go to the store now even though you don't really want
to.

This is like that old sentence "I didn't say you stole my money", which has
7 different interpretations, in English at least, by putting the emphasis on
each of the words separately.

    Since you replied NO, Emacs empties the To: header,

IOW, it assumes that you don't want to go to the store now, but you do want
to go somewhere now.

This is a minor issue, but IMO the UI could be made clearer.

    and doesn't ask for further
    confirmations because emacsbug.el doesn't want to restrict your rights
    to send email messages in general,

Gee, thanks for that!

    it just wants to protect you from
    inadvertently sending a report to the maintainers (which could wind
    you up under The Wrath of Gods and Other Calamities).

?

    In other words, as long as you yourself type the To: address, you are
    not required to confirm your desire to send email to ANYONE.

Then let's ask if you want to send the mail to someone else and, if you
answer "yes", remind you to fill out "To:". (The reminder is perhaps not
necessary, but the question is.)

BTW, why does Send Bug Report even consider that you might want to send the
bug report to someone else? If you wanted to do that, why would you think to
choose Send Bug Report in the first place? This seems unnecessarily
complicated (useless choices must be made).

HTH - Drew