Re: Rewriting the subject (Was: [sgnus v0.83] Followup Subject: typos in message.el (patch))

["Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Excerpts from mail: (15-May-96) Re: Rewriting the subject (Was: [sgnus v0.83] Followup Subject: typos in message.el (patch)) by Sudish Joseph

Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> And now, what if i write a hook to do my "manual" rewriting of the Subject
>> automatically, is that ok? What if Lars wrote it? What's the difference?

Sudish Joseph <sudish@VNET.IBM.COM> writes:
> There's no difference between you writing it and Lars writing it,
> *for your personal use*. The moment you make it GNUS *default
> behaviour* or even something that is part of GNUS, you break our
> compliance with standards and some non-standards.

I agree and disagree. Yes, I don't think it should be the default behavior;
however, I vote that Lars add such function as described earlier in this
thread to the message.el package, and if users want to add this function to
the message-setup-hook (or whatever the relevant hook is), then they can
easily do so. The presence of such a function in the code does not inherently
indicate a violation of or a break in compliance with any "standard," as long
as the default behavior is compliance.

Later,
Ed