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- From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: "Reply to *typed* address"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.163319.657@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 16:33:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan9.163319.657
- References: <199301081909.AA18974@amhux3.amherst.edu> <9301090949.AA22849@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <9301090949.AA22849@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
- >
- >On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:09:47 -0500 Tim Pierce <twpierce@unix.amherst.edu> said:
- >>In article <9301080223.AA22606@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
- >>>What about supporting "R" as a command where one can specify the address
- >>>one wishes to use?
- >>There is a (f)orward command which works quite nicely in this regard.
-
- >The (f)orward command includes the headers, so doesn't do what I am
- >suggesting. My request is to make things *easier* for the user, not
- >to make them do extra work (by having them delete the header-lines).
-
- This is a useful feature. It makes it quite clear who sent the
- original item. Parsing the headers down would be nice, but not easy
- with the vareity of mailers out there.
-
- >As to (f)orward itself, what is the rationale behind prefixing all
- >the lines of the forwarded item with ">"s?
- >Isn't it much easier (to program) and visually cleaner for the user
- >to put a separator line ahead of the forwarded item (something like
- >"------- start of forwarded item ------"), and a similar line after
- >the forwarded item?
-
- No, its really ugly when you have 6 or 8 ----start of forwarded
- item----. It can be tough to figure out who said what, and people
- occaisoally delete those lines.
-
- Adam
- Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
-
- What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig
- at all. How true that is.
-