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>>>>> "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!