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

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> 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?  :-) 

Nah! ...and yes... by "sender" I meant the actual name of the supposed
sender (real name, and email address), ie. what ends up in the from
field. 

> (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.

You can add another thing to this list:
 it might be a good idea to quietly override a custom email address
 for a domain that doesn't have an MX record, or an A record, in DNS

Leave this fact out of the documentation, and out of the elisp
comments (maybe...).  If someone wants to override this they'll have
to work at it, which would redirect email forger wannabess to Netscape
or something.