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Subject: Proposal: eval-ing arbitrary forms via posting-styles.
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I'm wondering what you folks think of the following idea for an
enhancement to the gnus-posting-styles functionality:

I'd like to be able to eval arbitrary, style-specific forms when
gnus-posting-styles are being processed, without causing any headers
to be set.  For example, the syntax might look something like this:

  (setq gnus-posting-styles
    '(("^alt\.hippos\.magnificent\.creatures"
       (name "Hubert H. Hippo")
       (address "hippo@potamus.org")
       ;; this would eval all the forms but not set any headers
       (forms (setq hippo-var t)
              (hippo-func 1 2 3 "potamus")))))

... or some such thing.

What are your opinions?

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com