Re: Posting styles

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From: dubach1@fas.harvard.edu (Joev Dubach)
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> Yup.  I think perhaps we should just reinstate `gnus-posting-styles'
> as `message-posting-styles' in Quassia Gnus.  Perhaps allow a
> `post-style' Group parameter to override the variable.  Uhm...  No,
> actually, I think it should be `gnus-posting-styles'; that may be
> slightly more unclean, but will allow us to do more neat stuff, I
> think. 

But what if people want to use it for mail originated outside of Gnus?
If there's really clever stuff that people need to be inside Gnus to
use, why not have both variables, with gnus-posting-styles overriding
message-posting-styles when necessary?

Joev                            <URL:http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dubach1/>

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