From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8390 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Message feature requests and gnus elisp query Date: 14 Oct 1996 21:23:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148557 11859 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:15:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25240 invoked from smtpd); 14 Oct 1996 20:27:00 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 1996 20:26:59 -0000 Original-Received: from ylfing.ifi.uio.no (4867@ylfing.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.25]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:09:25 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by ylfing.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:09:23 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: dubach1@husc.harvard.edu's message of 13 Oct 1996 19:42:11 -0400 Original-Lines: 50 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.51/Emacs 19.29 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ It'd be nice if more of the syntax checks performed on news messages > were also performed on mail messages; e.g. checking for lines > 79 > characters, multiple identical headers. Perhaps something like: (defun dubach-message-hook () (unless (message-check-news-syntax) (error "Bogus, man!"))) (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'dubach-message-hook) > It'd be nice if there were a message-news-courtesy-message variable > available that would be inserted in the news version of a message sent > both through news and mail; sometimes, it's possible for the primary > recipient to be the mail recipient (who shouldn't have a > courtesy-message inserted), and the secondary recipient be the news > recipient (who should). E.g. when I make requests of the system > administrator, I sometimes simultaneously post to harvard.hascs (the > local newsgroup devoted to system issues) to let people know that > they're not alone in seeing a problem, and that I've already sent info > about it to the manager, so they needn't do so as well. Uhm -- I think the most important thing here is to let the person who receives the mail know that what she has just received has also been posted publicly. Then she can decide whether to respond publicly or privately. > One thing I'm confused about how to do effectively is to disable the > message-courtesy-message temporarily for a given message via elisp. > E.g. if I've got a bit of elisp like this: > > (defun my-reply-mainly-mail-also-news () > "Compose mail that can also be news, but which won't have a courtesy > message in the mail version." > (interactive) > (gnus-summary-reply) > (setq message-courtesy-message "")) > > ...how can I make it so the setting of message-courtesy-message only > has effect for the duration of this message (but lasts long enough to > actually have an effect), and also so that it won't have an effect on > other messages composed and sent while this one is in progress? You could bind it to nil when doing the `C-c C-c' command. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."