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- From: spencer@ernie.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
- Subject: Re: "Reply to *typed* address"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.011524.7527@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Society for Promotion of Entropy in the Universe (SPEU)
- References: <9301080223.AA22606@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:15:24 GMT
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- In article <9301080223.AA22606@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>, ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
- >
- >When one hits "r" from the index screen or while reading an item,
- >one means "reply to whatever originator/sender/reply-to address is
- >in the header of this item".
-
- others have suggested just using f)orward... how about just having it
- verify the To: address the same way that it verifies the subject?
-
- i.e. when you reply, it shows you who you're replying to and then says
-
- Subject: RE: foo
-
- And lets you CHANGE the subject if you want to.
-
- Why not do the same thing for To:? One extra carriage return for people
- who don't want to change it, and easy access for people who do want to.
-
- I've always found it annoying to have to save the article and then
- remember to go to the header screen. Especially if it's a long
- response, by the time I ZZ out of vi, I've forgotten that I wanted to
- change the header :-)
-
- This would not require using any additional command keys and would be a
- very minor change to the interface -- all you have to do is hit one
- extra carriage return, and if you forget, nothing bad will happen, you
- just have to hit carriage return again.
-
- -----
- sss / Princeton University Class of 1994 / Department of Computer Science
- Things that try to look like things often do look more like things
- than things. [Terry Pratchett, _Wyrd Sisters_]
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