Re: New feature request: "faked" identity, and supercede

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

Excerpts from mail: (29-Oct-96) New feature request: "faked" identity, and supercede by Steinar Bang
> One thing I've done, is to change my identity (my address and organization)
> for some mail and newsgroups.
>
> I do it, by putting the following into my ~/.emacs:
>
> (add-hook 'message-header-setup-hook 'custom-organization-and-sender)
[...]
> So... I would like to see a built-in customization mechanism for the
> sender address, and organization. I might even squeeze in the time
> to implement it (no promises, but the motorcycle season is over).

This sounds a lot like a simplified version of the gnus-posting-styles
variable that was in September Gnus but was removed very late in the
September Gnus development cycle when Lars created message-mode to replace
mail-mode and news-reply-mode. At the time, Lars said he would put
re-implementing gnus-posting-styles on the to-do list for Red Gnus, but it
seems to have fallen through the cracks for this development cycle. :-(

Lars, could you raise the priority on re-implementing gnus-posting-styles for
the next development cycle? I can see disassociating it from Gnus and
renaming the variable to message-posting-styles or message-styles or
something like that. However, I thought the basic idea was a good and useful
one that I'd still very much like to see.

Thanks,
Ed