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In GNU Emacs 19.26.1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1) of Sat Sep 10 1994 on sparky

I really like the introduction of user-mail-address:

> ** You can now specify "who you are" for various Emacs packages by
> setting just one variable, user-mail-address.  This currently applies
> to posting news with GNUS and to making change log entries.  It may
> apply to additional Emacs features in the future.

It would be even greater if it were documented in the Emacs manual,
preferably in "(emacs)Change Log" and, I think, "(gnus)Posting
Articles".  The fact that emacs tries to guess the address on startup
should be stated somewhere.

Emacs fails to guess my email address correctly, and I think it will
fail for many persons.  I can't think of a better way to automatically
find the email address, though.  (On all the machines I currently have
an account on, emacs guesses something like "ceder@sparky.signum.se",
but the correct address is "ceder@signum.se"; dropping the first part
of (system-name) should produce valid email addresses for me, but
would probably break things for many others).

Since Emacs will often guess wrong, i think that setting the email
address should be added to "(emacs)Init Examples".  A suggested
wording:

   * Tell emacs your email address.

	(setq user-mail-address "coon@yoyodyne.com")

     Emacs guesses a value for this variable at startup, but
     since there is no portable way to make the guess correctly
     you often have to set this manually.  This variable affects
     GNUS and add-change-log-entry.

Yours,
		/ceder
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