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On 19 Nov 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> it's possible that this _has_ been discussed
> and no consensus to change it reached, but Emacs (and Gnus in
> particular) has so many different faces that maybe everybody found it
> easier to change it personally rather than to argue about it.

IIRC, the discussions were only about the standard faces.  Faces defined 
by Gnus and other optional packages were not among them, to the best of 
my (failing) memory.