[comp.emacs] Posting-Front-End

lamy@utegc.UUCP (07/07/87)

>Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.3 of Tue Apr  7 1987 on teknowledge-vaxc (berkeley-unix)

Anyone sees any use or redeeming value for the bogus news header line gnumacs
generates?

Jean-Francois Lamy                      lamy@ai.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet)
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science      lamy@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN X.400)
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4   {seismo,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!lamy

Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.UUCP (07/13/87)

lamy@utegc.UUCP writes:
   >Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.3 of Tue Apr  7 1987 on teknowledge-vaxc (berkeley-unix)
   Anyone sees any use or redeeming value for the bogus news header line gnumacs
   generates?

I heard by entirely unofficial sources that the Posting-Front-End was
added to GNU Emacs' rnews package as a subtle advertising mechanism.
It's somewhat surprising how many articles show up these days with
that line in them.  But by this time, the line has degenerated into
the same class as anti-NSA/line-eater food, and those inclined to
convert to using GNU Emacs have already done so.  It should probably
go away.

Karl