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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS?
Date: 15 Jun 1996 03:51:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x6builltr5.fsf@eyesore.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eric Hendrickson's message of Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:02:32 -0500

Eric Hendrickson <edh@lenti.med.umn.edu> writes:

> I think what he is talking about, for those of you who haven't used pine (I
> haven't but I've seen a few friends do this), is where in the To: or Cc:
> field, a user can type the username of the addressee, and after moving to
> another field, Pine expands it out to ``username@FQDN (Addressee's Full
> Name)''.  

Seems way neat and all that, but what's the point?  If you're mailing
something to a local user, why would you want to expand the user name
in this manner?

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."


  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-06-15  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-13 21:47 Danny Siu
1996-06-14  0:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-14 22:36   ` Danny Siu
1996-06-14 23:02     ` Eric Hendrickson
1996-06-15  1:44       ` Sudish Joseph
1996-06-15 19:06         ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-06-15  1:51       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1996-06-16 21:27         ` Mark Eichin
1996-06-17  2:33           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-17 18:21             ` Edward J. Sabol
1996-06-18  2:38               ` Sudish Joseph
1996-06-18 16:33                 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-06-18 16:56                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-18 17:15                     ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-06-14 13:08 ` David Worenklein
1996-06-14 15:45 ` Kai Grossjohann
1996-06-17  5:30   ` Mark Breslauer
1996-06-17 14:23     ` BBDB and Gnus 5.2 Jack Vinson
1996-06-17 16:14     ` Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS? Kai Grossjohann
1996-06-18 14:55     ` Hans de Graaff
1996-06-18 15:57       ` Jack Vinson
1996-06-25 17:11         ` Brian Edmonds

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