Message-ID vs email address

Message-ID vs email address

[Florian Weimer]

I've committed Reiner Steib's elisp translation of my Message-ID/email
discrimination algorithm.  I hope this is enough to confirm that this
code is part of Gnus and falls under my assignment contract.

(Of course, nowadays, Bayesian classification would be more apt.)

2003-02-21  Florian Weimer  <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
	From Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>.

	* gnus-art.el (gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic-alist): New
	variable, used in `gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic'.
	(gnus-button-mid-or-mail-heuristic): New function derived from
	Florian Weimer's Perl script.
	(gnus-button-handle-mid-or-mail): Allow a function instead of
	'guess.
	(gnus-button-guessed-mid-regexp): Removed.

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Simon Josefsson]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> I've committed Reiner Steib's elisp translation of my Message-ID/email
> discrimination algorithm.  I hope this is enough to confirm that this
> code is part of Gnus and falls under my assignment contract.

Are your assignment problems solved?  Should we include gpg.el?

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Florian Weimer]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
>> I've committed Reiner Steib's elisp translation of my Message-ID/email
>> discrimination algorithm.  I hope this is enough to confirm that this
>> code is part of Gnus and falls under my assignment contract.
>
> Are your assignment problems solved?

The problems I faced are of a different kind.  The FSF has papers for
Gnus (and GCC), but just for Gnus and not Emacs.

> Should we include gpg.el?

Is it still necessary?  I suppose it has been obsoleted by PGG, hasn't
it?

Anyway, I'm still not the copyright owner.

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Simon Josefsson]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

>> Should we include gpg.el?
>
> Is it still necessary?  I suppose it has been obsoleted by PGG, hasn't
> it?

Sort of, gpg.el still implements some key related stuff (snarf key
from incoming message, insert key block in outgoing message, etc) that
would be useful.  OTOH, simply including gpg.el wouldn't make the
features available, as most of the work is in gluing the features into
Gnus (menubars, MML etc).  So when that is done PGG could be enhanced
instead, which shouldn't be that difficult.

> Anyway, I'm still not the copyright owner.

Ah.  Right.

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Kai Großjohann]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> I've committed Reiner Steib's elisp translation of my Message-ID/email
> discrimination algorithm.  I hope this is enough to confirm that this
> code is part of Gnus and falls under my assignment contract.

Hm?  Reiner has his own assignment on file, so this is a moot point.

But why do you think it matters who commits the code?
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Florian Weimer]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>> I've committed Reiner Steib's elisp translation of my Message-ID/email
>> discrimination algorithm.  I hope this is enough to confirm that this
>> code is part of Gnus and falls under my assignment contract.
>
> Hm?  Reiner has his own assignment on file, so this is a moot point.
>
> But why do you think it matters who commits the code?

His work is a translation of mine, to some degree, so it might be a
derivate work under copyright.  We are just very careful. 8-)

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Florian Weimer]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>> Is it still necessary?  I suppose it has been obsoleted by PGG, hasn't
>> it?
>
> Sort of, gpg.el still implements some key related stuff (snarf key
> from incoming message, insert key block in outgoing message, etc) that
> would be useful.

I see.  I need some backend for gpg-ring.el, too, if I ever want to
finish this project.

Most of the complexity of gpg.el stems from the fact that it is
configurable to almost arbitrary command line syntax.  Initially, you
could configure gpg.el to use some version of PGP instead of GnuPG
(that's why the --status-fd wasn't used).  Nowadays, this is just
useless cruft...

IOW, a rewrite of gpg.el would be *much* shorter and simpler.

Re: Message-ID vs email address

[Kai Großjohann]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> His work is a translation of mine, to some degree

Ah!  Thanks.
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A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.