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- From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer)
- Subject: Re: edit & bounce
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.195232.13501@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Jul24.053748.2971@ifi.unizh.ch> <1992Jul24.123906.2145@hemlock.cray.com>
- Distribution: comp.mail.elm
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:52:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.123906.2145@hemlock.cray.com> davew@fig12.cray.com (Dave Wagner) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul24.053748.2971@ifi.unizh.ch>, maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis) writes:
- >> Hello!
- >>
- >> Some users at our site complained about the Elm `bounce' command:
- >> Sometimes it would be useful to remail a certain message after having
- >> edited its contents, but without quoting the message (like `forward' does).
- >>
- >This sounds like a really bad idea. I don't want someone to be able to
- >(this easily??) be able to mail anything and make it look like I sent it.
-
- Right. Virtually anyone anywhere can send a mail message and make it
- look (at least superficially) like you sent it.
-
- Anyway, editing bounced messages wouldn't effect who the message looks
- like it came from. Elm still wouldn't let you muck around with the
- From headers, and it would still have a header indicating who
- forwarded the message.
-
-
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- David M. Meyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- dmm0t@virginia.edu University of Virginia
- dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (NeXTmail)
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