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From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 1997 10:02:04 -0600
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

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> Can we just set this pile of evil ablaze in XEmacs?  That is,
> don't use the local hostname as a _default_ right hand side for
> e-mail addresses?  I argued with Naggum about it (or tried to) to
> no avail.

So what would the default be?  You cannot possibly predict what people
are going to do.  The worst that can happen in this case is that the
value is annoying.  The worst that can happen in others is that it is
wrong!  This is the sort of thing that the person who maintains the
emacs installation needs to deal with.

Soren

