Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS?

[Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>]

> 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?

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.

I don't miss it all that much currently (I haven't gotten around to
hooking it into message mode yet) so it's not *important* but it can
be useful if ts there.