From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6713 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS? Date: 15 Jun 1996 03:51:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9606142302.AA13351@shadow> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147129 4521 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:52:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA27247 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:41:56 -0700 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 04:20:51 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 04:20:50 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Eric Hendrickson's message of Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:02:32 -0500 Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.18/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6713 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6713 Eric Hendrickson 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."