Re: About follup headers on usenet

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

  > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:22:40 -0800 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote: 
  > 
  > DN> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
  > >> On Sun, Jan 13 2008, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
  > >> 
  > >> > Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
  > >> >> References?  The References header is hidden by default in No Gnus
  > >> >> when composing a message.  It is inserted when sending the message.
  > >> >
  > >> > Thanks... has it always been that way?  I mean in last 2yrs or so?
  > >> 
  > >> Since 2004 (but as said before, only in the development version):
  > 
  > DN> And this has the bad property that even if you do
  > DN> (setq message-hidden-headers nil)
  > 
  > DN> and then remove the "References" header, it will still get added to the
  > DN> message when the message is sent.
  > DN> Is this considered a good idea?
  > 
  > I think it's OK, since 99% of users either want it or don't care.  I'd
  > leave it on by default.
  > 
  > The remaining 1% should have a clean way of removing that header I
  > guess.  Is there one?  I don't know of it.

Probably the code that inserts the header, should not try to insert it
if it was set to be visible, the header is in the buffer. If it is not,
then the user intentionally deleted it.