Re: help with posting style profile

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Oct 04 2006, cliff barnes wrote:

> I have in my .gnus file a line similar to this:
> '((".*"
>
>          (name "cliff barnes")
>          (organization "Wentworth Oil" ))
>
> However, although a Usenet posting will show the 'from' as 'cliff barnes',
> when the message is opened to be read, below the 'from' is a field called
> sender' - which actually shows the user name and host name of my pc!!
>
> My question is how can I set this to a null value or even another name - 
> without of course changing my unix user account name.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Oort Gnus") ]
| New features in Gnus 5.10:
| [...]
|         * Gnus no longer generate the Sender: header automatically.
`----

If you can't upgrade, try adding (sender . disabled) to
`message-syntax-checks':

(eval-after-load "message"
  '(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)))

> Problem 2:
[...]
> 1. alt.music
>       (name "singer")
> (organization "record company"))
>
> 2. soc.culture.policy
> (name "presidential")
> (organization "white house"))
>
> 3. rec.arts.games
> (name "fun")
> (organization "cards"))
>
> Can you show me the right wording to make each of these unique example
> profiles automatically kick in whenever i post to one of these newsgroups?
> Ideally, i would like the default "." to work if i posted to any group other
> than these three.

(info "(gnus)Posting Styles"); <== Press C-x C-e here!

> Am I trying to use posting styles for something its not set up for???

No, this is exactly the purpose of posting styles.

Bye, Reiner.
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