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- From: tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: "Reply to *typed* address"
- Message-ID: <tnnrtg.726759912@tnb.phys.tue.nl>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 13:45:12 GMT
- References: <9301080223.AA22606@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> <1993Jan10.011524.7527@Princeton.EDU>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: tnnrtg@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology - NL
- Lines: 44
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- spencer@ernie.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- >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 :-)
-
- I often have a similar problem when replying privately to a message received
- from a mailing list: The 'From:' field specifies the original author, but
- there is also a 'Reply-to:' field pointing to the mailing list address.
- (Other mailing list are organized different, i.e. don't have the 'Reply-to:'
- field).
-
- A normal r)eply doesn't give any feedback with respect to where the reply will be
- sent to, so you have to remember to check whether the reply will be sent to
- the author or to the mailing list.
-
- >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.
-
- It could even be made an option, settable in the elmrc file. Those who like
- this feature set it ON, others set it to OFF.
-
- -Tonnie.
-
- --
- Tonnie Geraets E-mail: tonnie@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
- Department of Physics Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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