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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: no forced authinfo in 5.6.2?
Date: 17 Mar 1998 09:01:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <whd8fliw44.fsf@norne.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:22:42 -0500"

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

[...]
> Besides, I also see many advantages to this syntax. When people post
> to the mailing list asking how to make Gnus automatically send
> authinfo for certain servers, I will get a great thrill out of
> replying to them and writing "Use the FORCE tag, Luke!" :-)

Indeed. :-)

I caught a bit of flak from the "point and click" generation about
Gnus needing Emacs lisp customization to be about to force authinfo on
a server, and this sounds like a good line to throw at them at a later
stage...

> Please go ahead and implement it, Lars.

Yep!


  reply	other threads:[~1998-03-17  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-03-08 20:46 Steinar Bang
     [not found] ` <m3iupil26f.fsf@sparky.gnus.org>
1998-03-14  0:06   ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-03-16 19:22     ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-03-17  8:01       ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1998-03-19 12:09       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-20 10:44       ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-03-19 12:08     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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