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* 1999-12-31 Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> gnu.emacs.gnus
* <http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=%3Cvxkg0wjjrib.fsf@beaver.jprc.com%3E&format=threaded>
| Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab@bright.net> writes:
| [+]
| > I'd like to have it be more specific, for example: 
| > User-Agent: Gnus v5.8.2 GNU Emacs 20.4.1 (i386-*-windows95.1212)
| > Is there an easy way to do this?
| 
| No.  User-Agent, in the USEFOR draft, has a rather particular syntax.
| The general form for each segment is "name/version (free format string)"
| and its generation is fixed.  If there were an architecture string
| naturally part of Emacs 20.4's environment, that would go into the
| parenthesized part at the end, but there isn't one.

...But Emacs knows it Karl :-)

I suggest that the architecture info is added to next Gnus release

jari


(defadvice gnus-extended-version (around my act)
  "Add Architechture string to User-Agent: string."
  ad-do-it
  (setq
   ad-return-value
   (format "%s (%s)"
           ad-return-value
           system-configuration )))


(gnus-extended-version)
--> "Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 (i386-*-windows98.1998)"