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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Attribution enhancement, maybe?
- Keywords: attribution reply forward
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.221502.7841@DSI.COM>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 22:15:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.163202.20576@genrad.com> <1992Aug19.151729.29784@DSI.COM> <1992Aug19.182721.25194@das.harvard.edu>
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
- Lines: 27
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- adam@flicker.uucp (Adam Shostack) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug19.151729.29784@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Sydney S.
- >Weinstein) writes:
- >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?
- Probably not, but its not in 2.4. Actually, for reply you may want
- to say You wrote, but for forward you would want the group_attribution,
- so I think the group_ is a bad name choice.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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