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- From: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis)
- Subject: Re: edit & bounce
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.080506.28172@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Jul24.053748.2971@ifi.unizh.ch> <1992Jul24.123906.2145@hemlock.cray.com> <1992Jul24.195232.13501@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Distribution: comp.mail.elm
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 08:05:06 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Jul24.195232.13501@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer) writes:
- >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.
-
- I really don't think this idea is that bad. Sometimes users need to
- e-mail a message quite similar to one they wrote before. An easy way
- for doing this would be to pick up a copy from the sent folder
- and doing an "edit & bounce".
-
- >
- >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.
-
- Agree!
-
- The problem is that we just come from changing our mailsystem from ean :-{
- to pp/elm :-).
-
- In ean there is this "get" function which lets you "edit & bounce"
- messages. Now, some of our users miss this easy-to-use command.
-
- bye
- silvano maffeis
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