From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4904 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bruno Hertz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Personality / Alias / Posting Style State of the Union? Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:14:36 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: References: <86d5syzs2n.fsf@ufl.edu> <868y3mzq2l.fsf@ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670760 25340 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:26:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:29 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.hispeed.ch!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-218-17-54.dclient.hispeed.ch Original-X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1113405276 30697 80.218.17.54 (13 Apr 2005 15:14:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:14:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JR1LnseBl9Xklm73IMAqiJGJNlA= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5045 Original-Lines: 41 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5045 Tue Jan 17 17:34:29 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4904 Archived-At: "Allen S. Rout" writes: > "Bruno Hertz" writes: > >> Sorry, correction: posting styles are part of Gnus and should work >> with any (halfway recent) version of Emacs/Gnus. > > > Right. I guess what I wonder is, are the personalities / aliases > unmaintained because posting-styles grew to accomplish their > featureset, or because there are now mutually exclusive camps for this > function, each happy with their code. I can only guess here, but I think gnus-aliases was done because the original author thought posting styles was lacking some features. Example: gnus-aliases provides a menu with the identities you defined, and while composing a message you can still choose the identity from that menu. Clearly, this is an advantage to posting styles, which works fully automatic according to the rules you defined. On the other hand, there might be features in posting styles which can't be accomplished with aliases. I didn't do an actual comparison but just picked what I thought was most comfortable for me, and that was aliases in my case. As so often, ymmv, so if you're fine with posting styles just use them. Finally, as the author of gnus-aliases writes in his source, it's even possible to mix aliases and posting styles, although he did not do that himself, and I didn't either. Still, it's all really your choice. > > 'part of gnus' is good, and I haven't yet seen something the others do > which can't be accomplished in current posting styles. The other > packages have a more pleasant way of arranging groups of style > features, but that doesn't really yank my chain. As said, if posting styles does all you need, just use them, especially since they are part of the core Gnus package ... Regards, Bruno.