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To: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
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Subject: Re: The status of gnuattach lossage
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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> I have looked at it now. It also aliases kill-local-variables.. ugh!

Again.  This is legacy code.  Ages ago, changing a buffer's major mode would
blow away variables used by gnuserv.

> I am also not sure whether aliasing kill-buffer was a delibirate
> decision or just due to fact that gnuserv is so old it existed before
> there was a kill-buffer-hook.

The latter.  The hook was added after gnuserv was written and gnuserv hasn't
kept up with the changes.
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