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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:29:58 EST
- Sender: RiceMail discussion list <MAILBOOK@RICEVM1.BITNET>
- From: Scott Ophof <ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA>
- Subject: Re: Attribution line
- In-Reply-To: <MAILBOOK%93012011452584@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>; from "G.Yanos@UIC.EDU"
- at Jan 20, 93 4:40 pm
- Lines: 46
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- On 20 Jan 1993 16:40:24 GMT G.Yanos@UIC.EDU said:
- >Also, if the "On...said:" line is to change, it would be useful to
- >have a way to always include the name rather than "you". Sometimes
- >it's useful to reply to a message, include the text, and include some
- >other people in the distribution. The other people aren't "you".
-
- Yes, that'd be a nice idea too!
- Maybe an extra parm for the REPLY[TO] command, like NAME?
- And ADDR in case you also want to include the address itself?
- And FULL to have both addr *and* fullname specified?
-
-
- >And, as long as I'm asking, being able to change the '>' that marks the
- >included text would also be nice. For example, I juch prefer ' >' because
- >the indention of quoted material makes it much easier for the receipitnt
- >of the mail to find my additions inserted between lines of their message.
-
- This looks like an option for ones MAILUSER XEDIT, and maybe a
- command line option?
-
- Since you're asking, may I append the following to your request?
- It is rather relevant, especially when the discussion gets rather
- involved... :-)
- What about the possibility of having RiceMAIL check ones NAMES file
- for the tag ".pref-char:" in the originator's entry, so that one
- could have the following:
- On ... Yanos (Y) said:
- Y>On ... Peter (P) said:
- YP>On ... Paul (p) said:
- YPp> ..[Paul's text]..
- YPp> ...
- YP> ..[Peter's text]..
- YP> ...
- Y> ..[Yanos' reply]..
- Y> ...
- My own hot air... ;-)
-
-
- Regards.
- $$\ F. Scott Ophof
-
- ---------------------------> I speak *only* for *myself* <-----
- My credo: Computers exist for OUR benefit, NEVER vice-versa.
-
- (And Richard & Nick (and all those others!) always seem to come up
- with great solutions to what we finicky users suggest!) ;-))
-