NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/3774

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From: [e-mail] (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Forwarding didn't use to edit things if I didn't ask
Date: 17 Dec 1992 18:13:08 -0500
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dan Watts) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Rob Francis) writes:
>|I just upgraded to PL17 yesterday.  I've discovered something I don't
>|think existed in PL13.  If I want to forward a message, I'm asked if I
>|want to edit it.  If I said no, then the entire thing was left alone.
>|
>|Now I get whatever value "prefix" is set to in my elmrc slapped in
>|front of the message.  I would assume that when I say "Don't edit" it
>|would mean "don't do anything to the file".  Just a thought.  It
>|didn't use to be like this, did it?
>
>Nope.  It didn't do that before.  Hmmm... I liked it the old way.  I've
>used this feature more than once to forward source code that came to me
>in email.  Now I guess I'll have to save the text to a file first and
>then read it back in.  <sigh>  I liked the old way though this new way
>probably makes more sense and is consistent in how it operates.

No, actually if it changed, its a bug, we didn't intend to change it,
it changed as a side effect of something else we fixed.
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