Re: Posting styles

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

"Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Gnus iterated through each element of the alist in order and used all the
> styles that match. Thus, the order of items in the list was significant. In
> the above example, the signature "Give me Emacs or give me death!" would be
> used in both comp.editors.emacs.* and alt.religion.emacs, but not
> comp.unix.programmer.
> 
> I think this has a *lot* of intrisic freedom that using group parameters
> doesn't give you. See the above example where in two cases the MATCH portion
> of the alist are `(posting-from-work-p)' and `(not (usenet-post-p)'. Group
> parameters couldn't do that.

Yup.  I think perhaps we should just reinstate `gnus-posting-styles'
as `message-posting-styles' in Quassia Gnus.  Perhaps allow a
`post-style' Group parameter to override the variable.  Uhm...  No,
actually, I think it should be `gnus-posting-styles'; that may be
slightly more unclean, but will allow us to do more neat stuff, I
think. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen