From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8691 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New feature request: "faked" identity, and supercede Date: 09 Nov 1996 16:13:15 +0100 Sender: sb@metis.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.93) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148822 13784 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9471 invoked from smtpd); 9 Nov 1996 15:28:17 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 1996 15:28:16 -0000 Original-Received: from gw.metis.no (abel.metis.no [193.90.64.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:13:50 +0100 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA16295; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:13:18 +0100 Original-Received: by hub.metis.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA10297; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:13:17 +0100 Original-Received: by client.metis.no (8.6.11/8.6.12) id QAA29422; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:13:16 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 09 Nov 1996 05:51:00 +0100 Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.53/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8691 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8691 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > Steinar Bang 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.