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Jonas Luster <jonas@newsbone.org> writes:

> Gnus p0.44 violates `soft' GNKSA requirements (SHOULDs)
> in the following way:

>     10e  Does not let the user indicate which part to followup to

This could be done in transient-mark-mode (only yank the selected text
if the mark is active, otherwise yank everything).  It might even be
useful.

>     16f  Does not try to prevent posting multiple copies entirely

What would doing this mean?  

>     16b  Does not refuse posting an empty article
>     16d  Does not refuse to post quoted text only

There are code for these.  Doesn't it work?