From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56872 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Adam_Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message.el patch Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:52:40 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <877jwyn7ef.fsf@virgil.koldfront.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080892379 31419 80.91.224.253 (2 Apr 2004 07:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5411@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 02 09:52:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B9JTw-0007G6-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:52:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B9JTm-0008PS-00; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:52:42 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B9JTe-0008PM-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:52:34 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B9JTd-0003fr-44 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:52:33 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7803A0039 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 01:52:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B9JTb-0006oR-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:52:31 +0200 Original-Received: from finn.gmane.org ([80.91.224.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:52:31 +0200 Original-Received: from asjo by finn.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:52:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: finn.gmane.org X-Face: &DfBw60^ZxI8hd?J%t&_8wW?SLF%BBx<2XQ+sXYpX!?{=0C?9D{Nc`;Eq<0d=-L User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S7QkGypIr+vozdhiI2AH5OdxCOw= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56872 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56872 On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:23:36 -0800, Jan wrote: > Please consider that some people do not use "signatures" as per the > usual usenettish understanding goes, but still want to append a > piece of text at the end of each E-mail, text that depends on > posting styles, etc. -- for all practical reasons: a signature. Perhaps it would be easier to swallow if you seperated the two semantically different things "adding some text at the end of the body of the email" and "adding a .signature to the email", even though functionally they are similar? It makes sense to want to have no .signature and have something automatically inserted at the end of an email, as you show (both things at the same time make sense as well). Just don't call it a .signature (because it isn't). What do you think? > a) how I have signed this E-mail, > b) what happens if I want to append something of this kind: > best regards, --Jan > None of these things is possible with the current Gnus. (I think that's stretching it a bit :-)) > Religious issues aside, I believe there are legitimate reasons to > change the signature separator, especially if you accept that the > definition of a "signature" isn't very clear cut at all. What's the point in undermining the definition of a .signature even further? Best regards, --=20 "Mr. Cotton's... parrot. Same question." Adam Sj=F8gren asjo@koldfront.dk