From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6216 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward J. Sabol" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Rewriting the subject (Was: [sgnus v0.83] Followup Subject: typos in message.el (patch)) Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <199605152153.RAA09040@thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146704 2908 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA15542 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 15:31:57 -0700 Original-Received: from thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov (thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.127.167]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 23:53:47 +0200 Original-Received: (from sabol@localhost) by thuban.gsfc.nasa.gov (LHEA9504/950407.s1) id RAA09040; Wed, 15 May 1996 17:53:43 -0400 Original-To: Gnus Mailing List In-reply-to: (sudish@VNET.IBM.COM) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6216 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 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 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