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:
>> Sender, no.  From, yes.

> Well, this is a problem.  Perhaps there should be a variable to allow
> people to cancel/supersede articles that have differing From headers?
> If the From header matches a certain regexp, then the cancel/supersede
> message is sent out with the same From header as the article to be
> canceled/superseded?

> On the other hand, it sounds very, uhm, naughty.

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.

The fact that this would also affect cancelling/superseeding, could be
swept quietly under the carpet.

IMHO, of course...!


- Steinar