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- From: adam@flicker.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Attribution enhancement, maybe?
- Keywords: attribution reply forward
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.182721.25194@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:27:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Aug19.182721.25194
- References: <1992Aug17.163202.20576@genrad.com> <1992Aug19.151729.29784@DSI.COM>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <1992Aug19.151729.29784@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Sydney S.
- Weinstein) writes:
-
- >Attribution, is to attribute the text you are including. Since the person
- >who sent you the message wrote it, the attribution always belongs to them.
- >Its not a 'Dear person', that would be a salutation, not an attribution.
-
- Ok, heres an idea for an enhancement for the next version. Currently,
- .elm/elmrc has a single line controlling attribution. Since most of
- my replies are done with r(eply) not g(roup reply), I leave this set
- to "You wrote." But when I send a group reply, I'd like this to
- automatically change to "%s wrote:"
-
- # attribution string for replies ('%s' is the author of original message)
- attribution = You wrote:
-
- /* hypothetical addition
- # attribution string for group replies ('%s' is the author of original message)
- group_attribution = %s wrote:
- */
-
- Would something like this be tough to add?
-
- 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.
-