Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!unmvax!nmtsun!dieter From: dieter (The Demented Teddy Bear) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Obnoxious lisp code Message-ID: <1487@nmtsun.nmt.edu> Date: 20 Nov 88 04:53:37 GMT References: <17246@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: dieter@nmtsun.nmt.edu Reply-To: dieter@titan.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear) Organization: New Mexico Tech Lines: 30 In-reply-to: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) In article <17246@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet (Matthew P Wiener) writes: > In article , karl@triceratops (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: > >dieter@titan.nmt.edu (The Demented Teddy Bear) writes: > > >[Karl's former signature:] > > > "He even writes obnoxious LISP CODE!" > > > And seems to ignore questions about it. > > Oh please. I do respond when I can. Sometimes I get busy for awhile. > Sometimes a correct response requires thinking. And sometimes I just > forget. I get lots of Gnews mail. (2 Mbytes to date or so. I stopped > counting long long ago.) Sorry 'bout that. At best I can claim a stressful week coupled with a long reply time. At worst, I "have no excuses." BTW, the generation of the "From:" field for follow-ups produces bogons. Specifically, if you post via inews, you'll get "From: dieter@titan.nmt.edu", which inews looks at and says, "Aha! He's got a partial path, so we'll just tack on the local path, producing 'Path: nmtsun!dieter@titan.nmt.edu." This is considered poor form by some folk. My local fix was to simply remove the code that appended the "@titan.nmt.edu" from reply.el. You might consider making this customizable (other than by source hacking). Dieter -- Welcome to the island. You are number six. dieter%nmt@relay.cs.net dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu