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23.2; "Salutation" should not actually be included in bug mails

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org>
Cc: 7459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7459: 23.2; "Salutation" should not actually be included in
 bug mails
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:55:01 +0200

Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org> writes:

> This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
> not to your local site managers!
> Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
> usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

[...]

> The so-called "salutation" of a bug report sent via reporter-submit-bug-report
> is - in this case - not useful to those who read the email - it is only intended to be
> read by the person *writing* the email. So, it should not be included in the
> email. But it was.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't
resolved at the time.)

By default, it's removed -- but if you copy the text over to a different
mail client, it won't be removed.

But I think we can ensure that this removal happens (more often) if we
use `kill-transform-function' (for instance) to stop the salutation from
going to the kill ring in the first place.

On the other hand, this sounds like it might be pretty confusing -- not
being able to copy the text you're seeing in the buffer.

Anybody got any opinions here?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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