From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus Emacs Header Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:00:47 +0200 Message-ID: <874kb86y1c.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87eeac95c0.fsf@zoho.eu> <87lf4k7c73.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27916"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:pgHiKa+USoMTot3jDiS+7d7I3No= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 18:04:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNIU-00070o-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:04:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43752 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNIS-0003u2-Bh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNEz-0000SQ-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNEx-0006S5-TH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKNEv-0002qw-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:00:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132818 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > Signature is not header, though such information could be > placed in signature. Though people who receive email for > first time or receive email from multiple staff members from > same organization may be less confused when the first, in > the header, see some basic information about WHO IS THIS? > WHERE IS THAT PERSON FROM? WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Though people > should be reading from email headers, but reality is that > this is less today than before. Yeah, but what you are suggesting is, adapt (downgrade) your own behavior to better suit an assumption of other people's ignorance and incompetence. But two wrongs don't make a right. And the assumption isn't correct - not always anyway. >> I like what Snowden did (and read his book) but putting >> a message about him, the same message, in every mail will >> just annoy people since they didn't ask for it still will >> see it over and over. > > [...] it is similar to signature right? Nope, because the signature can be opted-out, (setq gnus-treat-hide-signature t) And, the signature is the agreed-upon place for such recurring user-defined data. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal