From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6732 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: 17 Jun 1996 04:33:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9606142302.AA13351@shadow> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147146 4576 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:52:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:52:26 +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 UAA15465 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 20:18:28 -0700 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 05:02:00 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 05:01:57 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Mark Eichin's message of 16 Jun 1996 17:27:34 -0400 Original-Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.20/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6732 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6732 Mark Eichin writes: > I've often used it (or rather, a different local binding that's been > around for 5 or 6 years) just to double check that I spelled the > username right. This is particularly important at a large site, like > MIT, where you have dozens of smiths and hundreds of chens... and a > one character typo can often yield a valid username, or worse a > mailing list. That makes sense. I sure could use it sometimes -- I often send test mails to myself, and my user name is "larsi". I often forget the "i" part, and I think the user who has the user name "lars" must be getting rather tider of getting mail from me. :-) We do definitely need getpwnam(3) support in Emacs, then. Anybody want to write it and send patches to RMS and Chuck? -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."