Re: New feature request: "faked" identity, and supercede

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> That's why the posting styles mentioned earlier, might be a very good
> idea.  This could be handled quitely, and deep down in the lisp code.
> 
> Remember that all "user friendly" news readers and MUAs on systems
> like the Mac and MSWin already lets you set the sender freely, so it
> wouldn't raise any eyebrows if Gnus allowed the same thing.

You mean the From header?  :-)  (The Sender header is something else,
you know.)

> The fact that this would also affect cancelling/superseeding, could be
> swept quietly under the carpet.

That's a good point.  Well, in any case, it'll have to wait until
Mamey Sapote Gnus.

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen