How can I teach gnus to respect 'default-key' and 'encrypt-to' in my
~/.gnupg/gpg.conf rather than using (apparently) the newest key found
in secring.gpg for signing and the newest key on the public keyring
identified with my user id for "encrypt to self"?

If Gnus insists on being smarter than ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf how else can
it be coerced into doing what I want with respect to the choice of
keys used for signing ('default-key' in gpg talk) and encrypting to
self ('encrypt-to' in gpg talk)?

I'm using No Gnus v0.6 from the Debian package gnus-5.11+v0.5.dfsg-3
atop XEmacs 21.4 (patch 20) from the Debian xemacs21-21.4.20-2
package.

        jam