The need to specify an incremental or non-incremental mode has been
confusing some people, and since hypermail usually has enough info to
tell which is appropriate, it seems unwise to require new users to
figure this choice out.
Also, I sometimes get annoyed when I forget to put a "-m" before an
mbox name on the command line and it hangs waiting for stdin. It seems
natural to attach a new meaning to files specified as command line arguments
(am I correct in assuming that names not preceded by an option specifier
have never meant anything to hypermail?)
If there is some demand for using an explicit option to ask hypermail to
determine the update mode, I would propose "increment = -1".
We probably shouldn't change the behavior of any existing installation, but should make new installations default to using this new mode. I am uncertain what is the best way to control when this new mode should be active. Here are three possibilities that come to mind:
Any comments?
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