[PATCH] patchbomb: send messages with a one second delay

[Martin Geisler]

Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> writes:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net>
> # Date 1242489834 -7200
> # Node ID a1e957667ac674a19957194ce2dbfe39414b59d6
> # Parent  53ff4a5af284a235f2a430e1f8edfb25c82905aa
> patchbomb: send messages with a one second delay
> The "n of N" messages are all in reply to the "0 of N" message and
> when several of them are sent within the same second, mail clients
> have no good way of sorting them (except alphabetically by subject,
> but does not seem like an otherwise useful default).
>
> Adding a one second delay between messages makes my mail program
> (Gnus) sort them correctly by default.

If people like this, we can add support for a no-delay option that
people can set in their .hgrc file if they don't care. It should be off
by default since otherwise this change wont help.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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