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>>>> They may not be serious, but as for `message-yank-prefix', it may
>>>> not be easy to users to find the way to make Gnus work as before
>>>> (the new behavior is that cited lines are prefixed only with three
>>>> space characters).
>> 
>>> This is not acceptable IMHO.  We need to find a solution for this.
>>> I don't have a good idea, though.
>> 
>> It should be pretty easy to do something like
>> 
>> (defcustom message-foo
>> (let ((def mail-foo))
>> (if (acceptable def) def fallback))
>> ...)

> That kind of defeats the purpose.

Why?


        Stefan